Cambridge is known for its sophisticated tech startups and hosts many innovation programmes in health tech and science making the city one of the top tech hubs in the UK. Just behind Harvard, Cambridge counts the highest number of Nobel laureates globally in physics, chemistry, and medicine. Maddyness has compiled a list of some of the most innovative businesses operating in Cambridge, UK.
30.03.2020
In the face of one of the worst healthcare and economic crises of a lifetime, businesses and industries are being forced to come up with new, innovative solutions to a colossal problem. The old adage ‘innovate or die’, in every sense, has never felt more vital.
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Simon Lovick
30.03.2020
With a report by Ikea about the evolution in ways of life around the world, a handful of journalists were able to discover the behind the scenes workings of the Swedish giant, from product concepts to their latest test lab. Maddyness was part of the journey and demystifies the secret recipes that make the symbolic blue and yellow company so successful.
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Geraldine Russell
30.03.2020
We may not have robots in our homes, making us dinner and running baths so that they’re ready for us as soon as we get in from work. However, many innovative startups across the country are slowly introducing robotics into our daily lives, prompting the big question, how will we live with robots in the future? Here are five ways that robots are already part of British life.
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Tali Ramsey
26.03.2020
Automation and artificial intelligence are likely to impact every profession, from journalists and web developers to legal experts and accountants. But don’t panic: six out of ten professions that will be hiring in the future haven’t even been invented yet. Here's a selection of careers of the future that we've found for you.
26.03.2020
Tech is amazingly innovative with unrealised potential to completely transform life on Earth for the better or worse and although it seems to have been predominantly for the worse, it is increasingly being positioned as our only hope of salvaging the habitat that we have left.
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Tali Ramsey
26.03.2020
It has never been easier to start a business. Startup culture is developing internationally and nowadays people have more access to funding and a wider market base than ever before. However, starting a business and scaling one are two very different propositions, and it’s in the second stage when things can often go wrong.
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Manish Madhvani
26.03.2020
Working from home has traditionally been an exceptions approach with a strong preference by company's to have meetings and events in person. Now, however, as the impact of COVID-19 is felt across the world, home working is becoming a necessity as businesses attempt to keep staff ‘signed in’ and well whilst keeping business momentum going and revenues protected. We learn more from white.space, experts in corporate innovation.
25.03.2020
Financial problems, strategic errors, or the end of the adventure, it's sometimes hard for entrepreneurs to realise the weaknesses of their small business. However, being honest and transparent could be more valuable than we thought...
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Perrine Signoret
25.03.2020
The Chancellor has set out a package of temporary, timely and targeted measures to support public services, people and businesses through this period of disruption caused by COVID-19. This information is being updated regularly.
24.03.2020
How can you double or triple your growth without necessarily using a growth manager? Gabriel Gourovitch, founder and host of the podcast Growth Makers, gives you the keys to an effective growth strategy,
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Gabriel Gourovitch
24.03.2020
French philosopher, historian, and intellectual Marcel Gauchet discusses to the role of innovation, new technologies, and social media in our current democracies to Maddyness.
24.03.2020
Joe Procopio explores how best to coach your business from its teen phase to adulthood.
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Joe Procopio
24.03.2020
If you’re travelling abroad, you can compare the cheapest flights online, you can find the best hotels online, and you can even read reviews of restaurants online before you’ve even set foot off the plane. But during his career in the startup world, Tony Hughes realised new businesses didn’t have this convenience. His company City Curator thinks they can help with that.
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Simon Lovick
24.03.2020
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