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i-Teams success in the Post-doc business plan competition
Congratulations to all the past i-Teams projects and students who have been successful in the 2017 Cambridge Enterprise post-doc business plan competition! Out of 6 finalists, 3 are past i-Teams projects. Davor Copic, Institute for Manufacturing - NextGen Heat Pipes (i-Teams Easter 2017) James Griffiths, Materials Science & Metallurgy - Solaware (formerly HALO - Development…
Three past i-Teams projects secure over $17m in funding!
In February 2016 three past i-Teams projects raised over $17m in funding between them! Sphere Fluidics (Michaelmas 2008) raised $7m for development of a single cell analysis system. Aqdot (Michaelmas 2011) raised £5m for company development, and Silicon MicroGravity (Michaelmas 2010) raised $3m in its first funding round. More details here: Sphere Fluidics wins $7…
Sound and Ice – Winners announced for the i-Teams What
The next generation of innovators were treated to demonstrations from Audio Analytic and the British Antarctic Survey at last week’s Science Festival, and asked to think of new ways to use their world-leading technologies. The i-Teams "What Would You Use THAT For?" competition runs each year at…
i-Teams projects scoop both prizes in the first Cambridge postdoc
The first business plan competition at the University of Cambridge specifically for postdocs ran in 2015 as a collaboration between Cambridge Enterprise and the EPOC society (Entrepreneurial PostDocs of Cambridge). Applications were of a very high quality, and four teams made it to the finals. The winners of the £15,000 prize were Immaterial Labs, whose…
i-Teams competition at the Science Festival – Encouraging young innovators!
March 26th 2015 At last week’s Science Festival, tomorrow’s innovators had the opportunity to try out lab techniques with GSK, sound recognition with Audio Analytic, the Sureflap microchip catflap and the Light Blue Optics interactive projector. The i-Teams competition runs each year at the Institute for Manufacturing (www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk) and challenges the children to think of…
Congratulations to our £1k winners!
One of this year's i-Teams projects (from Michaelmas 2014) has been awarded a winner's prize in the annual CUE £1k competition. The "MOfs i-Teams" project team consisting of the inventors, Dr. David Fairen-Jimenez and T. Tian, along with three of the original i-Teams students, Andrew Marsden, Thomas Fry, Dr. Claudia Percivalle, describes their technology as…
i-Teams winners at the CUE £100 for 100 words competition!
Two i-Teams ideas and a past i-Teams inventor are among the winners of this year's Cambridge University Entrepreneurs £100 Challenge, successfully describing their ideas in only 100 words. The Michaelmas Term MOFs team has managed to win two separate prizes for two separate market applications of their technology. They are working with Dr. David Fairen-Jiminez of the…
i-Teams at the Science Festival – Novel ideas for new
Using moss to power fairy lights and allowing pigs to reach their food through a catflap were some of the bright ideas to use scientific inventions in the What would you use THAT for? competition. The competition was run at the Institute for Manufacturing during the Cambridge Science Festival as part of the i-Teams…
Congratulations to our £1k winners!
Past i-Teams projects have scooped three prizes in this year’s Cambridge University Entrepreneurs £1k competition and teams including i-Teams alumni won three more. Many many congratulations to all the winners!!!!! The successful i-Teams entries were: Camses (Giorgio Divitini & Caterina Ducati) We developed a catalyst based on TiO2, a standard industrial material, that can exploit…