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