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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)
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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”
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 This Morning