Cambridge UK Growing, and attracting world

attention

Unlocking potential

Scaling up, attracting world

HQs, trading and investing

– and keen to work with

regions closest to home

From a small market city, Cambridge

is accelerating, starting and scaling

up some of the world’s leading high-

growth companies

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Source: Dr Paul Heffernan, Institute for Manufacturing

High skill employment in Cambridge businesses

doubled in 10 years in home-grown and incoming

companies. 25% are knowledge intensive

15 home-

grown

valued at

>$1bn

Alcatel Lucent

Amgen

Apple

AstraZeneca

Bayer

Broadcom

Brother

Cancer Research

Carl Zeiss

Citrix

Genzyme

GSK

Hitachi

HP

Huawei

Illumina

Intel

Medical Research Council

Microsoft Research

Napp

Pfizer

Philips

Qualcomm

Siemens

Takeda

Toshiba

Unilever

Wellcome Trust

Big organisations join for the cluster

More than 15,250 Tech companies since the 60s Now over 4,000 knowledge intensive companies

Less than 1.7% unemployment

‘Explosion of

companies’

We thought 73,000

people were employed

in tech, but we hadn’t

counted the institutions

…so we’re re-counting

Cambridge trusted to re-

invest its business tax

growth, although…

Cambridge

‘devolved powers’

UK Budget March 2015

“Greater

Cambridge?”

Abcam, ARM, Autonomy, AVEVA,

CAT, Chiroscience, CSR, Domino,

Ionica, Marshall, Solexa, Virata, Xaar

15 companies have scaled from zero to

$1bn

£45k per Cambridge job

Compared to £35k in London

Gross Value Add

£10bn +

Combined

turnover

Houses, roads,

rail, schools…

So we need

more modern

infrastructure

JOBS

Top 50 companies

hired 6000+

people in past year

Cambridge Growth

and

still

growing

WEALTH

Top 50

increased

their

revenue by

£1.3bn

UP

17.6%

Necklace of growing business parks

Cambridge

44,000 new jobs, 33,000 new houses

The Universities, technical

consultancies, IP, investors,

professional services, networks,

recruitment, training, sharing,

learning…

The infrastructure

develops

We learn from each other and share

With advanced manufacturing, stem cell research, radio

communications, health and wellness, web technology,

bio-technology, smart cities, graphene

research, advanced printing, video game and mobile

applications, clean energy companies and

more – see the number of cranes everywhere!

Cambridge has

cranes and bikes…

Presentation designed by Kevin Coleman of Alliantus Ltd Photographs © K. Coleman, 2013.

Images not to be reproduced or re-purposed without permission.

Impact on

Hertfordshire?

The growth needs space, houses, skills

development.

Spreading the impact can lead to more

industry and jobs in Hertfordshire

STEM skills

development? The University of Hertfordshire and others are

welcome to join with us in providing the most

needed skills. Tertiary colleges are good on

technical training. Training will also build

industry and start-ups in Hertfordshire

Cambridge growth – inventions,

engineering and building businesses –

welcomes collaboration

Claire Ruskin

CEO Cambridge Network

www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk