Voice Reading App from Judge’s “Accelerate Cambridge” Program to Be Pitched at St. James’s Palace
VocalIQ, a smart platform that controls devices through a person’s natural conversation flow, was chosen to participate in the Pitch@Palace event for entrepreneurs at St. James’s Palace in London on 5 November. VocalIQ has been incubated and accelerated at Accelerate Cambridge at Cambridge Judge Business School.
VocalIQ was one of three Accelerate Cambridge start-ups to participate on October 20th at a Pitch@Palace “Bootcamp” held at Microsoft Ventures offices in London. The Bootcamp served as a warmup to the final Palace event in November, at which start-ups pitch to investors and other business people in order to secure funding and strategy suggestions.
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Judge Business School Signs Memorandum with Chinese Private Equity Firm
The University of Cambridge and China Science & Merchants Capital Management have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote academic links and collaboration between the two institutions over the next three years.
The collaboration was launched at the Global Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Conference (GIEE) in Shaoshan, China, on 27 September. At the University of Cambridge, the collaboration will be overseen by Hanadi Jabado, Director of Accelerate Cambridge at Cambridge Judge Business School; and Dr. Jo Mills, Deputy Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL) at Cambridge Judge.
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Judge Launches Centre for Social Innovation
“The social innovator needs to understand the basic business model, finance and those other business skills, but the social innovator also has to turn mission into reality,” says Neil Stott, Executive Director of the new Centre for Social Innovation at Cambridge Judge Business School.
The website for the Centre went live on 23 September, outlining the Centre’s mission and featuring various resources related to social innovation including research, events and Stott’s first blog post for the Centre; the post focuses on how the public sector is playing (in contrast to its sometimes stodgy image) an increasingly important role in social innovation, especially in the technology space.
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New Cambridge Judge Center Seeks Honorary Fellows
Judge Business School-University of Cambridge is launching a Center for Social Innovation (CSI) later this year and is seeking to appoint five to eight Fellows, who are leading social innovators in the public, private or third/NGO sector. Fellows will advise, promote and assist the new center’s work.
In the last few years there has been a significant and sustained global interest in creating social value through social innovation and social enterprise. Moreover, creating social value is no longer the preserve of the NGO sector, but integral to the strategies of many public organizations and, increasingly, the private sector”said CSI Executive Director Neil Stott.
Cambridge Judge Launches Entrepreneurship Discussion Series
The role of government in nurturing entrepreneurship will be explored at three policy breakfasts in the Palace of Whitehall, hosted by the Industry and Parliament Trust at the House of Commons and supported by research from the University of Cambridge Judge Business School.
The first event, on July 14th at 8:30pm, will focus on ‘Red Tape Fatigue? The role of government in supporting & encouraging entrepreneurship’. The experiences of leading British entrepreneurs, the challenges faced by people wanting set up their own business and how entrepreneurs could be better supported by Government policy will be the subjects under debate. The forum will be facilitated by a senior decision maker within industry and parliament. A short speech from both the academic and industry practitioner will be followed by a roundtable-style discussion.
