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 […]
PAST EVENT – SJIC SUNDOWNERS VOL.1
Date: 22nd November 2018 Time: 16:30 – 18:30 Venue: The Square, St John’s Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge, UK, CB4 0WS
Welcome to SJIC Sundowners
Hello World! We’re excited to announce a new initiative for companies across The Park! SJIC Sundowners is a series of relaxed, late afternoon events with entrepreneurs, founders, investors and inspiring people, designed to exchange know-how, take risks and drive change. JOIN US for the pilot event with beer and street-style food taking place on […]
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 […]
Cambridge start-up communities in aid of Magpas Air Ambulance
We were delighted to support and take part in a unique Cambridge charity event that brought together start-up and SUP (stand-up paddle boarding) communities in aid of Magpas Air Ambulance and their #FurtherFasterGreater new £1.5m air ambulance helicopter appeal. Cambridge’s own, Christian Bunke, Founder of basck, an intellectual property consultancy, joined Justin Miles, a […]
Cambridge start-up Glyconics first to miniaturise infrared tech
World’s first hand-held infrared devices for COPD and other conditions to be produced following Glyconics agreement with Spectrolytic A hand-held device that would give early warning of ‘acute events’, and so avoid the hospitalisation of thousands of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), is to go into production ahead of clinical trials. This […]
PAST EVENT – Pitchfest Autumn Edition
Date: 3rd October 2018 (Start of the programme) Time: 9:00 – 17:00 Venue: St John’s Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge, UK, CB4 0WS