Connect with the East of England Tech Community
East of England Tech Nation Talks will virtually bring together the East of England tech community. Now in its sixth year, the groundbreaking annual Tech Nation report returns to shine a spotlight on UK tech and how the country is driving global success in the fields of investment, innovation, growth, employment, and productivity. The Tech […]
£1.25 billion package for innovative UK businesses
Includes a £500 million Future Fund for high growth companies UK businesses driving innovation and development will be helped through the coronavirus outbreak with a £1.25 billion government support package: • Chancellor has announced new £1.25 billion coronavirus package to protect firms driving innovation in UK • package includes a £500 million investment fund […]
David Gill to host a webinar on Business Valuation
St John’s Innovation Centre is delighted to announce that David Gill will run a webinar “Valuation of Your Business” on 30th January 2020. Delivered by Invest Horizon in partnership with EBN, this webinar addresses both mainstream methodologies for valuing reasonably established smaller firms and also useful strategies to use when selling equity to investors […]
Pitchfest on Tour
Pitchfest returns to St John’s Innovation Centre as part of the national programme rollout. We’re delighted to announce that applications are now open for the 7th Cambridge edition of Pitchfest. APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN for the Pitchfest 2019 Autumn cohort of ambitious companies in the East of England with innovative products & services who […]
Humanise your tech: UX specialist to talk killer design strategy
St John’s Innovation Centre is hosting the fifth in a series of Merlin ICT interactive workshops aimed at researchers, post-docs, early-stage founders and SMEs to accelerate the growth of their ventures on their way to successful commercialization. “Interpreting the Customer and UX” workshop will be held on 22 January 2019 with key themes exploring innovation […]
New event to help entrepreneurs turn users into customers
Building on the success of the MERLIN ICT Cambridge workshop ‘Entrepreneurial Mindset’ with David Gill as a guest speaker exploring principles of effectuation as an approach to entrepreneurship, the team at The Centre is inviting researchers, post-docs, SMEs and start-ups to the fifth event in a series, ‘Interpreting the Customer and UX’ on 22nd January […]
Invested Investor backs Pitchfest to boost angel-entrepreneur dialogue
St John’s Innovation Centre has teamed up with The Invested Investor for this year’s two editions of Pitchfest, a highly-focused training and showcase programme aimed at ambitious companies with innovative products and services who have the potential to scale and are looking to raise between £100k – £1m. The Invested Investor, a social enterprise project, […]
UX strategist to share how to find customers for innovative technologies
St John’s Innovation Centre is delighted to welcome Dr Anna Mieczakowski as a guest speaker to the third event in a series of interactive business workshops aimed at researchers, start-ups and SMEs who want to take their ideas to market. Customer Discovery is a third fully funded workshop delivered under the MERLIN (Methodologies for […]
ghd and CW (Cambridge Wireless) establish new Innovation Hive
ghd and CW (Cambridge Wireless) announce a partnership that brings a new form of accelerator to the technology start-up scene. The ghd Innovation Hive will contribute to the design of the next era of beauty and hair electronics, and the call for start-ups, scale-ups and SMEs to enter is now open. “ghd is the best […]
PAST EVENT – Workshop #4: ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET
Date: 22nd November 2018 Time: 9:30 – 13:30 (Lunch provided) Venue: St John’s Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge, UK, CB4 0WS