ASEAN Partners

i-Teams has been running at the University of Cambridge since 2006, derived from MIT i-Teams. i-Teams uses multi-disciplinary teams of students and postdocs to conduct primary market research for university inventions and spin-out companies, interviewing relevant industry and sector experts, and providing evidence-based guidance to the inventors and founders. Students gain hands-on training in real-world skills that they will use throughout their future careers. Inventors and founders gain real-world market feedback to enable them to focus their efforts on the most commercially-viable markets and applications. To date, Cambridge i-Teams has worked on over 250 technologies and trained over 1500 students, resulting in 110 spin-out companies which have attracted over $300m of investment so far, including Spectral Edge (acquired by Apple), Xampla, Raspberry Pi, Paragraf, WaterScope, aqdot, QKine, H2GO Power, Tenyks, GlycoVue and Nu Quantum.

The Centre for Global Equality (CGE) evolves innovative solutions to global challenges. Bringing together collaborators from civil society, academia, government and business, we mobilise intellectual, financial and social resources and focus these on the interests of the four billion people in the world who live on less than $4 a day. CGE works directly in the UK, Ethiopia, Kenya, Ghana, India, Laos, Indonesia and Vietnam. Our Cultivator projects and ventures also work in Cameroon, Colombia, Madagascar, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Uganda. CGE’s UK activities are run from an Inclusive Innovation Hub in Cambridge, where the Cultivator is housed. To facilitate our collaborations with the University of Cambridge, we are partnering with the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology to deliver an Inclusive Innovation programme. We also collaborate with University College London, NIAB and the British Antarctic Survey.

HUST, established in 1956, is Vietnam’s largest and oldest technical university. Located in the Hai Ba Trung District of Hanoi, the university enrols over 35,000 undergraduate students and 1,400 graduate students. HUST is the leading technical university in Vietnam and is committed to research, knowledge development and intellectual training for society. HUST’s Mission – We commit to human development, high-quality education, scientific research, technological innovation and knowledge transfer for the betterment of our nation and society.

The Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) was established in 1920, and was one of Indonesia’s first technological universities, establishing a strong reputation among Indonesian and South Asian institutions. ITB is primarily based in the city of Bandung, in western Java, on a large campus with 20,000 undergraduate students and 8,000 graduate students. ITB’s Mission – To innovate, share, and apply science, technology, art and humanity and produce excellent human resources for a better Indonesia and the world.”