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i-Teams scores university hat-trick as scheme expands
A scheme which provides budding entrepreneurs with a real-life experience of turning ideas into business opportunities is expanding to other universities. Cambridge University's i-Teams was set up in Cambridge in 2006 by Amy Mokady, a local entrepreneur and business angel, and is a collaboration between the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) and the Cambridge University Technology…
Hi-tech crime fighters get business boost from i-Teams
See the full story here Cambridge Network - High-tech crime fighters get business boost from i-Teams Institute for Manufacturing - Forensic science spin-out a first for i-Teams Science Business - Cambridge i-Teams help new forensic technique to market Cambridge News - New weapon in fight against drugs Eastern Daily Press - Scientists hope to turn theory into profit
i-Teams harvest radical boff-think
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I-Teams present before Dragon’s Den star and IdeaSpace chief
A new way of repelling insects, a device aimed at finding the next generation of sporting superstars and a novel plant extract have all been unveiled at a special business event. Enterprising students from Cambridge University's i-Teams programme described how they would help budding Branson's take their radical products to market. The teams presented ideas…
i-Teams receives Hauser Forum IdeaSpace funding
I-Teams, a scheme designed to help inventors realise the commercial potential of innovative designs, has been given a financial boost. The i-Teams programme, co-ordinated by the University of Cambridge Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), is one of the very first projects to receive financial support from the city's newest centre for enterprise. The programme, based on…
News coverage of an i-Teams project – New repellant foils
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i-Teams students give doctors a clear vision of invention potential
A technique for testing the peripheral vision of young children could be given a boost - thanks to the inventors putting it into the hands of Cambridge students.
Cardiff University launches i-Solve
Cardiff University started a new programme this month, called I-Solve, based on the i-Teams programmes at Cambridge University and MIT. The programme has started with 4 projects and 28 postgraduate students. This makes Cardiff the first university in the UK after Cambridge University to launch an i-Teams course.
i-Team wins CUE £1000 Challenge
The Magnetic memory elements i-Team has won the Cambridge University Entrepreneurs £1000 Challenge, with their executive summary for 'Vortex M-RAM'. Their business plan describes how they will license their unique technology for use in future M-RAM chipsets, a market estimated to be worth $7 billion by 2010. Congratulations for all their hard work!