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Impact story: partnerships & collaboration
Cambridge Enterprise is committed to ensuring we share our best practice in research commercialisation with partners globally.
In September 2021 we launched a new Research Commercialisation and Technology Transfer course, via the University’s new online learning platform, Cambridge Advance Online – and in so doing were one of the first groups to use it. Bringing together international best practice models with Cambridge Enterprise’s experience and expertise, the course offers early career technology transfer professionals a high quality learning experience covering consultancy, tech transfer and venture creation. Rather than being designed as a playbook, the course takes participants through the steps of understanding their own institution, its position within the local entrepreneurial ecosystem and how best to structure their activities to meet their needs. We are delighted with the excellent feedback we have received for both the course content and also our tutors and support.
As well as developing our online training offer, we were delighted to run our first residential training programme for three years. Impact from Research: Consultancy, licensing and new venture creation is a week-long programme offering international visitors an opportunity to have masterclass sessions with Cambridge Enterprise staff as well as learn about the Cambridge Cluster and hear from leading figures in investment, science park management and venture support.
In addition to these more formal courses, we continue to host international delegations who are interested in learning about our work in technology licensing, consultancy and venture creation, and also offer capacity-strengthening consultancy training. Across all of these activities we have worked with more than 70 different countries over the past five years including Chile, Poland, South Africa, Romania, Australia, Thailand, Pakistan, Sweden and Taiwan.
This year we welcomed ideaSpace to the Cambridge Enterprise family
ideaSpace
We don’t just focus on building international networks. This year we welcomed ideaSpace to the Cambridge Enterprise family. ideaSpace provides co-working space and community across three sites (West, City and South) in Cambridge; including within our home the Hauser Forum. As a part of Cambridge Enterprise, ideaSpace enhances our offering to entrepreneurs by providing co-working space in addition to our technology development and venture support. This is an important step forward in transitioning the Hauser Forum into an innovation hub for the West Cambridge campus.
IE Cambridge initiative was launched this year providing resource and information for budding entrepreneurs
UEN & IE Cambridge
We have also taken a lead role in convening the University’s community of innovation support providers by co-ordinating the University Enterprise Network (UEN), sharing best practice and encouraging collaboration among the broad offering available in the University. Through the UEN, we have driven the creation of an entry point and navigation to all innovation and entrepreneurship activities under the newly launched IE Cambridge initiative, helping those who are interested in Cambridge innovation to engage easily and meaningfully.
Annual Review 2022
This impact story was first published in the Cambridge Enterprise Annual Review 2022.
View our Annual Review 2022 to learn more about some of the exciting breakthroughs and innovations that we have been part of during 2021-2022.