i-Teams student (Cambridge Nanotube, Lent 2010) reaches final 16 in DFJ & Cisco global business plan competition
23rd June 2010
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2010/corp_062310.html
9th June 2010
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Business Weekly - Entrepreneur scheme expanding
Cambridge News - Business ideas scheme catches on
May 24th 2010
Business Weekly
March 23rd 2010
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Business Weekly - Norwich hi-tech crime fighters get boost from i-Teams
The Manufacturer - Students give fingerprint technology a boost
Cambridge Network - High-tech crime fighters get business boost from i-Teams
Institute for Manufacturing - Forensic science spin-out a first for i-Teams
Science Business - Cambridge i-Teams help new forensic technique to market
Cambridge News - New weapon in fight against drugs
Eastern Daily Press - Scientists hope to turn theory into profit
January 12th 2010
Cambridge News
December 14th 2009
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Business Weekly - i-Teams approach pays dividends
October 19th 2009
i-Teams is one of the very first projects to receive financial support from the city's newest centre for enterprise.
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Cambridge Evening News - i-Teams project receives £34k cash injection
Business Weekly - i-Teams received Hauser Forum funding
October 13th 2009
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September 2009
A technique for testing the peripheral vision of young children could be given a boost - thanks to the inventors putting it into the hands of Cambridge students. More info
April 23rd 2009
Cardiff University started a new programme this month, called I-Solve, based on the i-Teams programmes at Cambridge University and MIT. The programme has started with 4 projects and 28 postgraduate students. This makes Cardiff the first university in the UK after Cambridge University to launch an i-Teams course.
January 23rd 2009
The Magnetic memory elements i-Team has won the Cambridge University Entrepreneurs £1000 Challenge, with their executive summary for 'Vortex M-RAM'. Their business plan describes how they will license their unique technology for use in future M-RAM chipsets, a market estimated to be worth $7 billion by 2010. Congratulations for all their hard work!
November 6th 2008
Two i-Teams are among the winners of this year's Cambridge University Entrepreneurs £100 Challenge, successfully describing their ideas in only 100 words. The Magnetic memory elements i-Team entered their ideas for using the technology for M-RAM, and the Microdroplet microfluidic reactors i-Team based their entry on their idea for therapeutic antibody design. Well done to them all!
October 20th 2008
Dr. Adar Pelah, the inventor of the technology behind the Virtual Reality System i-Teams project (Lent 2007), has been awarded a prize of £10,000 in the 2007/8 Research Councils' Business Plan Competition for further business development. His system, now known as 'StroMoHab', is designed to accelerate the rate of recovery of stroke victims by immersing them in a virtual world.
June 10th 2008
The CLEAN Lead team (i-Teams Easter 2007) have won the first Armourers & Brasiers' Venture Prize with their business plan under the name of GreenPB. The team of students included David Zou, Lei Wang and Nigel Williams who continued working with the inventor, Dr. Vasant Kumar, of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, after the formal end of their i-Teams programme. The team have won a prize of £25,000 to assist in the commercialisation of the technology, the first Cambridge i-Team to win a national business plan competition. Many congratulations to them! For more details see the Cambridge Enterprise press release.
January 30th 2008
The Drive Technologies team have triumphed in the Cambridge University Entrepreneurs £1k Challenge! Mark Henare, Iskandar Samad, Sue Kirk, Caizhen Cheng, Laurence Toime, Chong Yi Ong and Zern Tay worked with inventor Dr. Ehsan Abdi of CAPE as part of i-Teams in Michaelmas Term 2007, and have now been awarded one of 11 £1000 prizes in the CUE competition. Congratulations to them for all their hard work!
November 30th 2007
The Drive Technologies team (from the i-Teams project on Low-cost variable speed motors) have been awarded one of 20 £100 prizes in the Cambridge University Entrepreneurs £100 Challenge. This required them to describe their business idea in no more than 100 words. Well done team!
