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9 October 2012TRANSCRIPT
Sherry Coutu
Cambridge Cluster
Super-Angel Summit
10 August 2012
Let’s turn to Cambridge
The University of Cambridge
World Class Ranking
QS World University Rankings 2011 (2010)
1. Cambridge (1) 6. Imperial (7)
2. Harvard (2) 7. UCL (4)
3. MIT (5) 8. Chicago (8)
4. Yale (3) 9. Pennsylvania (12)
5. Oxford (6) 10. Columbia (11)
88 affiliates of the University of Cambridge have won Nobel Prizes, more than any other institution
A long history of innovation
Cambridge University Press:Established 1534
Harvard University:Established 1636
1970
1987
A long history of innovation
• More than 180 spin-outs from the Computer Laboratory alone;
• building on the legacy of Babbage and Turing
Cambridge ideas change the world
EDSAC Raspberry Pi
Crick & WatsonSolexa (acquired by
Illumina in 2006)
ARM
CAT (acquired by AstraZeneca (MedImmune))
therapeutic monoclonal antibodiesDNA sequencing
Leading to Europe’s most successful technology cluster
1,400 cluster companies54,000 employees
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Whittle Turing DarwinRutherfordBabbage Sanger……
Watson & Crick
88 Nobel Prize Winners
2 x $10bn companies
10 x $1bn companies
a vibrant Cambridge Cluster Economy
world leading underpinning science
3rd
1,412
53,453
£ 13 billionturnover
And plenty more to come……
Here are the top 50 (of the 1400) that insiders believe are capable of being worth £ 1 Bn in the next 5 years……..
Here are the top 50 by REVENUE GROWTH ……..
Here are the top 50 (of the 1400) in terms of who is hiring fastest……
And a few snapshots…..
This will be a scren-grab of the computer lab alumni companies, when the labeling is correct
Join us in changing the world!
www.cambridgeclustermap.com
Sherry Coutu
Cambridge Cluster