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Welcome to Cambridge. Dr. Philip Sargent, Diboride Conductors Ltd. Why come to Cambridge ?. 76 Nobel Prizes (Chicago 72, Columbia 60, Harward 40, MIT 36, Princeton 30, Humboldt Berlin 29) - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Welcome to Cambridge
Dr. Philip Sargent, Diboride Conductors Ltd.
Why come to Cambridge ?
• 76 Nobel Prizes (Chicago 72, Columbia 60, Harward 40, MIT 36, Princeton 30, Humboldt Berlin 29)
• Newton, Babbage, Maxwell, Bragg, Rutherford, Dirac, Whittle, Wilkes, Perutz, Kendrew, Crick, Watson, Sanger, Oatley, Klug, Milstein
• Physics, Molecular Biology, Engineering
Cambridge in the last 30 years
• From 50 to 1600 high tech. companies
• 45,000 employed, 2,000 millionaires locally
• Since 1972, capitalisation of £40 billion
• Science Parks, ARM, Software
• ERBI 160 biotech, 60% industrial ink jets
Cambridge in the last 3 years
• Cambridge Entrepreneurship Centre (CEC)• 110 new businesses
• Judge Institute Business School (12 years)• 4th in Europe, 22nd World (FT rank)
• Europe’s Technology Cluster
• EEDA explicit target:• “Innovation Capital of Europe”
This Morning
• 10:15 Welcome & Engineering Context
• Conductor Development
• 10:45 Paola Lezza • 11:15 Fang & Salama
• 11:30 Mike Tomsic • 12:15 Discussion
• 12:30 Lunch