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World Bank – Middle East and North Africa Region ConferenceShirley Jamieson, Head of Marketing, Cambridge Enterprise Limited

University of Cambridge

20th June 2013

Innovation and the University’s mission

The mission of the University of Cambridge is to contribute to society through the pursuit of

education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence

Leading to Europe’s most successful technology cluster

1,525 cluster companies54,000 employees

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Whittle Turing DarwinRutherfordBabbage Sanger……

Watson & Crick

89 Nobel Prize Winners

1 x $20bn &1 x $10bn company

10 x $1bn companies

a vibrant Cambridge Cluster Economy

world leading underpinning science

THE CAMBRIDGE PHENOMENON

THE CAMBRIDGE PHENOMENON

50 years old

3RD MOST HIGHLY-REGARDED UNIVERSITY-BASED

“TECHNOLOGY” ECOSYSTEM IN

THE WORLD

The Cluster

The Cluster

The University

The University’s economic impact

THE CAMBRIDGE MODEL

• Recruit the best academics in the world

• Give them the freedom to do what they choose.

• IP belongs to the University unless requested by the academics

SUPPORTING INNOVATION

• Accelerate Cambridge

• Babraham Bioscience Technologies (BBT)

• Beyond Profit

• Cambridge Enterprise (CE)

• Cambridge University Entrepreneurs (CUE or CU Entrepreneurs)

• Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club (CUTEC)

• Cambridge University Education without Borders (CUEWB)

• Careers Service

• Centre for Business Research

• Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning  (CfEL)

• Centre for Technology Management (CTM)

• Computer Lab

• Downing Enterprise

• ideaSpace

• Institute for Manufacturing (IfM)

• InCrops Enterprise Hub)

• i-teams

• Judge Business School (JBS)

• MakeSpace

• Masters in BioScience Enterprise (MBE)

• Parmee Prize for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise

• Silicon Valley Comes to Cambridge

• Technology Enterprise Group (TEG)

• Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Cambridge Enterprise Limited

“Cambridge Enterprise exists to help University of Cambridge inventors, innovators and entrepreneurs make their ideas and

concepts more commercially successful for the benefit of society, the UK economy, the inventors and the University”

INTERNATIONAL REACHOUT

• University’s International Strategy Office

• Cambridge Enterprise International Outreach Programme

Azuri - www.azuri-technologies.com

Raspberry Pi www.raspberrypi.org

Thanks

Cambridge Enterprise Limited

University of Cambridge

Hauser Forum

3 Charles Babbage Road

Cambridge

CB3 0GT

UK

Tel: +44 (0)1223 760339

Fax: +44 (0)1223 763753

Email: enquiries@enterprise.cam.ac.uk

www.enterprise.cam.ac.uk