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Toggle navigation. Toggle navigation. News archive. Professor Steve Evans contributes to Future of Engineering report. 2018 is the UK’s Year of Engineering, the government campaign to promote and celebrate one of the country’s most dynamic

You can download it here or pick up a hard copy from the IfM. ... This issue also highlights our continued involvement in the Women in Manufacturing initiative and our role in organising its first conference.

This edition highlights the importance of manufacturing and the contribution that IfM is making in three key areas: helping smaller manufacturers adopt appropriate digitalisation technologies; equipping people with the right skills

This webinar looks at why sustainable business models matter and how to think differently about value creation and capture. ... This webinar looks at how identifying and eliminating waste in your business makes business sense.

To achieve this, however, it is essential that designers and engineers work together, so that products are developed with assembly in mind. ... T: 44 1223 766141. E:Share This..

All of these require early-stage anticipation and consideration of future challenges that may otherwise delay this process, along with understanding current and future capabilities. ... This project aims to address the questions around how and why

Cambridge always has this reputation of being about questioning, trying to understand what’s really going on. ... There’s a certain independence and free spirit of thinking that gets honed on this course.

Given suitable analytics solutions, this high-quality data can be used for decision making on a strategic level in all kind of organizations. ... We do this by developing a domain level technology roadmap following a three-stage technology roadmapping

In this paper we focus on licensors’ ecosystem strategy, i.e. engaging complementors, in their licensing scenarios.

This project explores the ‘division of labour’ of RTOs’ activities into different ecosystems, providing theoretical and empirical contributions. ... This is an InterAct funded project led with colleagues from Policy Links Unit (Dr.

However, in spite of this relevance, existing literature about Open IP approaches is scarce, and most existing investigations are focusing on the software industry. ... This paper links Open IP to social and environmental issues, and particularly

This paper describes the development and testing of a practical approach to mapping technology opportunities, with the aim of engaging both commercial and technical stakeholders in evaluating a technology and recording ... Development and use of this

This paper explores the evergreening phenomenon. After an introductory description of evergreening and its associated innovation and IP policy issues, the paper provides a literature review.

Leonidas Aristodemou, University of Cambridge. Frank Tietze, University of Cambridge. In this paper, we contribute in solving the problem of incomplete adoption of IPA within firms, by producing a state of

The analysis identified potential benefits in the automotive aftermarket to transform this business by providing individualised spare parts on demand and on location without a necessity for expensive tooling. ... Nevertheless, additive technologies

This practiceoriented working paper provides guidance on how to make the best use of the information that exists by assessing projects against a number of appropriate factors and allotting scores to

However, to our knowledge this argument has yet been hardly discussed in detail. ... This model links firm innovation behavior to three antecedents, including two product related characteristics (ownership, product purpose) and the specifics of the PSS

This research, building on the extant knowledge of communication and persuasive recommender systems literature, and the review of real examples of intelligence delivery ‘failures’, obtains a detailed framework of intelligence delivery

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This report, titled '(Best) Practices in the Integration of Social and Digital Decision-Making Approaches Across Industries,' was conducted for the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. ... This project received funding from

This project explores how wearable technologies can be used to teach new skills. ... This delivers wider value opportunities for stakeholders seeking technology commercialisation. Download: Contact: Clare Farrukh.

How do managers evaluate the opportunities for new business models? Download: Project poster. ... This project aims to test a workshop template for supporting roadmapping review, strategy and planning.

Business appraisal of technology potential. 'What is this technology worth?' is a perennial question faced by technology managers. ... Building on interest generated in the BATP project in the area of evaluating early stage technology, this project

This innovative model illustrates the change from traditional mobility as we know it to mobility-as-a-service. ... It is then suggested that the full potential of ICT-enabled value creation in this emerging market, especially from the supply-side, has

If this is true the UK is at risk of providing the skills and knowledge for other countries to grow while not taking advantage of its own investments. ... This report will be available for download or purchase from the end of May 2006.

The findings and conclusions from this workshop and a further four months of analysis, discussion and debate within the group has been published in and the form of a roadmap that ... shows a vision of science towards 2020 and the role that computer

Toggle navigation. Toggle navigation. Issue 7. Issue 3. Dr Ronan Daly, from the IfM's Inkjet Research Centre and founder of the new Fluids in Advanced Manufacturing Group, explains why taking a cross-disciplinary approach to advanced manufacturing

Toggle navigation. Toggle navigation. Issue 7. Issue 1. Dr Simon Ford, from IfM’s Centre for Technology Management, explains why we need to take a clear-eyed view of this much

Toggle navigation. Toggle navigation. Issue 7. Issue 2. Duncan McFarlane, Professor of Industrial Information Engineering and head of the IfM’s Distributed Information & Automation Laboratory (DIAL), and members of his research team have been

To download the report, please click here. ... Date published. 18 March 2016. Related People. Share This..

This event has been organised by Creative Front Cambridgeshire, a dynamic creative industries network led by Anglia Ruskin University. ... Related People. Share This..

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5 Jun 2023: flourish. This presents a major risk to the future prosperity of the UK. ... Working in manufacturing for 20 years, I have become dangerously blinkered to this.

Responding, Melanie Leech, FDF Director General, said: “As Government builds the strategy for economic recovery, this report provides a timely reminder of the important financial, strategic and social contribution of the ... Related People. Share This..

A team of designers from the IfM's Design Management Group are exhibiting a novel 'moss table' at the London Design Festival this week. ... This pioneering work involves collaboration between the  Departments of Engineering, Chemical Engineering and

Bettina Blasini - (School of Education, Technical University of Munich). This paper analyses the role of communicators in innovation clusters in order to provide a new perspective on clustering dynamics. ... To address this interdisciplinary research

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, this meant the institute could respond to new challenges using past experience. ... This briefing note examines key policy instruments aimed at supporting the recovery and future growth of manufacturing industries in the

This webinar looks at why sustainable business models matter and how to think differently about value creation and capture. ... This webinar looks at how identifying and eliminating waste in your business makes business sense.

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Lorraine Holmes, Chief Executive Business Link West Midlands, said of the new partnership “We are delighted to be working with Cambridge University and MAS to deliver this timely package of support ... Click here to download the full press release.

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But, this research has been conducted mostly in firms where creativity is not necessarily central to the success of the organisation. ... In contrast, this study sought to explore whether the same strategies apply in firms which are inherently creative.

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Looking into the future may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but a Cambridge academic has produced a new textbook which could help organisations to take on this challenge. ... Related People. Share This..

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