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    11 February 2011
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    1. SAVE THE DATE - 9 JUNE 2011, TECHNOLOGY VENTURES CONFERENCE
    2. Cambridge Apprentice 2011 - 26 February
    3. MedImmune ideas@CUTEC
    4. Join i-Teams for the Easter Term – Apply by 4th March
    5. Launch of Pitching for Management™ in Cambridge
    6. News and events from CfEL

  • 1. SAVE THE DATE - 9 JUNE 2011, TECHNOLOGY VENTURES CONFERENCE

    Ideas Economy - Changing the World by Connecting Ideas

    CUTEC's TVC 2011 will address how Ideas Economy has been implemented to generate, connect and spread ideas/technologies which have impacted the world. It will act as a platform for attendees to connect and experience Ideas Economy.

    Confirmed Keynotes:
    George Whitesides (CEO of Virgin Galactic)
    Mark Surman (Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation)
    Pamela Hartigan (Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford)

    Confirmed Conference Advisors:
    Mark Surman (Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation)
    Pamela Hartigan (Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford)

    In addition, we will host a Technology Showcase along with a Cambridge Diamond Exhibition, displaying both start up technologies and well established companies based around Cambridge.

    This is a conference not to be missed, more details to follow —mark the date in your calendar!

  • 2. Cambridge Apprentice 2011 - 26 February

    CUTEC and CUE have come together to challenge entrepreneurial and business minded students with real-life, hands-on problems. Representatives from some of the most innovative Cambridge-based companies are joining us to stretch your imagination and find original and practical solutions to their problems.

    It will be a one day event where participants with diverse educational backgrounds and experience will be divided into several teams. Participating companies will present their challenges and teams will compete to present the solution. The teams will be supervised by experienced mentors and company representatives leading to final pitch. The final pitch will be judged by a panel consisting of the company representatives and the mentors.

    Date: 26th February 2011
    Time: 10 am - 7 pm
    Venue: Department of Engineering, LT0
    Register and find out more on: http://cambridgeapprentice2011.eventbrite.com

  • 3. MedImmune ideas@CUTEC

    Exclusively for CUTEC followers - you can pre-apply for the event!

    CUTEC & MedImmune have come together to offer you an opportunity to explore your innovative skills together with one of the world's leading Biotechnology companies on 9 March!

    Your task will be to tackle a challenge proposed by MedImmune (ranging from strategic planning to detailed scientific topics), while working with mentors from the company to arrive at an unique, creative and applicable solution for MedImmune.

    Send an email to Lukasz Mlodyszewski - innovation@cutec.org stating your interest and you will be granted access to the application page the 16th of February, a day before everyone else!

    Places will be strictly limited!

  • 4. Join i-Teams for the Easter Term – Apply by 4th March

    Interested in how research is commercialised or how it can affect government policy?

    Then read on!

    "Working on this project has taught me an enormous amount about general business strategy, market analysis, team building, effective communication and presentation. This has been an invaluable experience for me."
    Jing Zhang, Chemistry, i-Teams student

    In the ground-breaking i-Teams programme, post-graduates from across the University work together to discover the commercial potential of a real Cambridge invention. Each team collaborates with researchers and industry mentors to assess the route to market for the emerging technology. At the end of the term, the team presents their findings to a business and academic audience and have the opportunity to present at the annual CUTEC Technology Venture Conference.

    The programme lasts for a term and includes regular group sessions, team meetings and individual work.

    Next term’s projects:

    * Influencing government policy through scientific research with the Centre for Science and Policy
    * Improving infant health in the developing world while breastfeeding with JustMilk, Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology
    * Investigating uses for a cryoprotective polymer with Professor Nigel Slater, Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology
    * Analysing screenplays, books and online discussions with University of London Media Arts & Computer Science

    To find out more about i-Teams and this term’s projects visit www.iteamsonline.org

    To apply, send your CV and a covering letter explaining which project you want to do and why to Amy Mokady (am678@cam.ac.uk) no later than FRIDAY 4th MARCH. Applications are welcomed from post-graduates, postdocs and 4th year undergraduates from any University in the East of England, as well as all CUTEC members.

    i-Teams is organised in conjunction with the Cambridge University Technology & Enterprise Club (CUTEC).

  • 5. Launch of Pitching for Management™ in Cambridge

    AngelNews, the leading online news service for the early stage investment market is bringing its successful series of events, Pitching for Management™ to Cambridge on Thursday 24th February 2011 at St John’s Innovation Centre, sponsored by Lloyds TSB Commercial.

    Pitching for Management™ (in association with Intramezzo) allows fast-growth businesses to pitch to a room full of highly-skilled and experienced individuals to join their teams in exchange for sweat equity, commission and/or salary. Audience members offer a range of skills from sales, marketing and finance directors to mentors, non-executive directors and CEOs, plus many more. 80% of audiences have worked with fast-growing businesses in the past.

    (Pitching for Management™ events have been running since January 2009 in London.)

    Thanks to sponsorship from Lloyds TSB Commercial and hosts St John’s Innovation Centre, there is no charge to pitch at or attend this launch event.

    So if you are a company wanting to find great people to work with, this is the event for you. To book your place, visit http://pitchingformanagementincambridge.eventbrite.com/ or call the AngelNews team on 01761 452248.

    For more information visit:
    http://www.angelnews.co.uk/angelnews-newssite/static/pitc...

  • 6. News and events from CfEL

    World first entrepreneurship diploma for Cambridge!

    The University of Cambridge Judge Business School's Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning has launched a ground-breaking one year Postgraduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship to start in September 2011. It is offered on a part-time basis and the resulting qualification is accredited by the University of Cambridge, currently ranked the world’s number one university. The programme is largely delivered through an online learning environment allowing flexibility of study but, more importantly, making it accessible on a global scale. In addition, students gain the opportunity to meet with experienced entrepreneurs and experts from the vibrant and successful local community during two residential sessions located in Cambridge, UK. The Postgraduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship takes advantage of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning's experience in providing educational opportunities and resources for entrepreneurs over the last ten years. The key faculty are Dr Joanna Mills, Programme Director; Dr Shailendra Vyakarnam, CfEL Director; and Dr Shima Barakat, CfEL’s Research and Teaching Fellow. The Centre’s philosophy of enabling new ventures through highly practical learning experiences is at the core of this programme but underpinned by the academic rigour required for a University of Cambridge standard of qualification. It is open to anyone from across the world looking to develop an entrepreneurial career pathway through building a business venture based on new technology, developing a social enterprise, pursuing an opportunity in the arts or creative media, or, launching an innovation within an established organisation. If you or some of your contacts are interested in participating, please see the CfEL web site (http://www.cfel.jbs.cam.ac.uk/programmes/diploma/index.html) for further information and to register your interest. Or you can email the team at: pgdiploma@jbs.cam.ac.uk. Admission is selective and competitive. Fees apply.

    • Cambridge reaches out to aspiring entrepreneurs (Financial Times, 19 Jan) Read more:
    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/0fe4ed00-23c8-11e0-8bb1-00144fe...
    • World first entrepreneurship diploma for Cambridge (Business Weekly, 20 Jan) Read more:
    http://www.businessweekly.co.uk/index.php?option=com_cont...

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    Business Weekly and CfEL launch Cambridge Graduate Entrepreneur of the Year Award
    The Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning is sponsoring a Graduate Entrepreneur of the Year Award. The first will be presented at our gala dinner on 24th March at Queens’ College, Cambridge and will then be awarded in perpetuity. The award is designed to recognise the most innovative enterprise launched by a Cambridge alumnus. It is open to any business enterprises founded by Cambridge graduates which have been running for a minimum of three years outside of the immediate university compass and gained some commercial success. If you think you’re eligible, please email the CfEL team at cfel@jbs.cam.ac.uk by 1st March 2011.

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    Enterprise Tuesday 2011
    How to turn ideas into reality
    Don’t forget there is still a chance to come along to Enterprise Tuesday sessions run by the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning at the Department of Engineering! If you’re interested in finding out about what to focus on in order to increase the chances of success for your business venture, then you should attend the talk on 15th Feb with Mark Gerhard, Chief Executive of computer gaming company, Jagex, on 15th Feb. Then the series ends in a grand finale on 22nd Feb with the opportunity to meet and pitch ideas to a number of entrepreneurs and experts from the Cambridge Cluster! If you haven’t already done so, please register online (http://www.cfel.jbs.cam.ac.uk/programmes/enterprisetuesda...). Further information is available on our web site. Find out more: http://www.cfel.jbs.cam.ac.uk/programmes/enterprisetuesda...

    Next session: Increasing the odds
    Feb 15, 18:00
    Venue: Lecture Theatre 0, Department of Engineering, Cambridge
    Speaker:
    • Mark Gerhard, CEO of Jagex
    This session will focus on how to prioritise in order to manage business growth and increase the chances of success. Entrepreneurs are usually open to opportunity and ideas but in the process of searching for revenue, funds and business concepts, it is easy to get distracted from key goals. This talk with Mark Gerhard, Chief Executive Officer at Jagex Games Studio, the UK's largest independent games developer and publisher, will look at doing the things that matter.
    This session is sponsored by ideaSpace, and Business Link.

    Enterprise Tuesday Discussion Group
    Cambridge Consultants Ltd is running a special discussion group on 15 Feb from 19:30.
    Venue: University of Cambridge Engineering Department, Board Room, 2nd Floor
    Bathtub to Warehouse: Want to know how you can take your idea from bathtub to a warehouse full of product?
    This discussion group will explore why, when, and how demonstrators can help you raise investment for your venture. Investors ask difficult questions - compelling demonstrators can help you answer these questions and communicate both the credibility of the technology and the immediacy and impact of the application to both potential investors and customers.
    Group Leader: Ruth Thomson, Cambridge Consultants
    To book your place, please contact email Ruth at ruth.thomson@cambridgeconsultants.com

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    Ignite 2011
    We’re now taking bookings for the next Ignite programme which takes place from 3rd to 9th July 2011 at University of Cambridge Judge Business School. Are you a student, graduate or academic considering your own venture? Are you a solo scientist or technologist seeking to commercialise a new product or service? Are you a Researcher or Manager from an established organisation looking to diversify products and markets? Are you a Director of an existing young business seeking to commercialise a new product or service? This unique, intensive programme offered by the University of Cambridge every year aims to fast-track technology and innovation ideas to commercial reality. Click here to find out more about Ignite: http://www.cfel.jbs.cam.ac.uk/programmes/ignite/index.html

    Ignite can help you to:
    • Take the next steps to making your technology or business innovation a reality
    • Develop an internal venture
    • Clarify your idea and test it within a high calibre, safe environment
    • Learn how to pitch successfully to potential investors or the Company Board
    • Develop a relevant, high quality network of contacts

    Plus: You can sign up for the new Mentors Club!
    We’ve introduced a scheme to provide structured support to entrepreneurs after completing Ignite. Delegates will have the opportunity to become members of the Mentors Club for a fee in order to continue their access to networks, investors, relevant training and/or events over a six month period. There will be an induction workshop for the scheme on Saturday 9th July and the mentoring runs from July 2011 to January 2012. More information will be available on our web site shortly.

    N.B. Discounts available for early booking. Interested? Please contact the CfEL team by email: ignite@jbs.cam.ac.uk

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    Enterprisers 31st May to 3rd June 2011
    The Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL) at the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), and the University of Sussex is offering a unique opportunity for all postgraduates students in Cambridge to develop personal and professional skills for FREE* on the next Enterprisers programme (http://www.cfel.jbs.cam.ac.uk/programmes/enterprisers/ind...) running from 31st May to 3rd June 2011 at Wyboston Lakes. For further information about Enterprisers, please contact the Programme Manager, Orsolya Ihasz: Email: o.ihasz@jbs.cam.ac.uk; Tel: 01223 766261. You can also find information on the CfEL web site. The deadline for application is 5.00pm on the 18th April 2011 but you should apply soon as places are filling up fast! Click here (http://www.cfel.jbs.cam.ac.uk/programmes/enterprisers/app...) to access the application form.

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    Cambridge Startup Weekend , March 11-13, 2011, St John's Innovation Centre
    Got an idea for a business? Got the skills to help turn an idea into reality? Cambridge Startup Weekend is the event that brings people with ideas and skills together to make things happen. An intense 54 hour event, it focuses on building a web or mobile application which could form the basis of a credible business over the course of a single weekend. Held between March 11-13, it brings together software developers, web and graphics designers, marketing and business people to build applications, develop a commercial case around them and have fun while doing it. Whether you are a student, someone thinking of founding a start-up or even an established entrepreneur looking for a new challenge the Cambridge Startup Weekend is the perfect event for you. Guest speakers include Dr Shai Vyakarnam, CfEL Director; Martin Rigby, Managing Director of ET Capital; and Neil Davidson, co-founder and CEO of Red Gate Software.

    EARLY BIRD TICKETS ON SALE AT £50 - ONLY AVAILABLE FOR LIMITED PERIOD. BOOK YOURS NOW. (http://cambridge.startupweekend.org/tickets/)

    For more information on the event, visit cambridge.startupweekend.org.

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