• i-Team on Policy, Easter 2011, with the Centre for Science

    By i-Teamer, Dave Bosworth Science can play a vital role in creating informed and useful policy, but often important research does not reach the attention of policy makers. Over the past three months, a group of early career researchers has been investigating the pathway to linking researchers with appropriate policy makers. The i-Team on policy…

    21 July 2013
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  • Cambridge Carbon Capture update – winner of the Shell Springboard

    Cambridge Carbon Capture, a i-Teams project during Michaelmas 2010 has scooped £40,000 from the Shell Springboard programmefor its Idea to combat climate change. Michael Priestnall, the firm's founder and Chief Technologist of said: "CCC has spent the last year with Professor Fray and his team in the Department of Materials Science to prove the feasibility of…

    21 July 2013
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  • Micro-droplets i-teams update – now a funded start-up company!

    "As inventors we always believed that our microfluidic picodroplet technique was revolutionary, and that it could have a wide range of applications. We wanted to work with i-Teams to help us identify commercial uses outside of our own sphere of knowledge. The i-Team delivered excellent results for us, highlighting new applications and identifying the key…

    21 July 2013
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