Cambridge International Programme Carol Moore Programme Director INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCY 2005 for th

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Cambridge International ProgrammeCarol
MooreProgramme DirectorINTERNATIONAL
RESIDENCY 2005for the MSc in Real Estate at

• Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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• AGENDA
• Where are you?
• England
• Cambridge
• Roles of Cambridge University and College
• The Cambridge Phenonium
• The Cambridge Clusters

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Welcome to the European Union

• Area 3.97m Km2
• Population 456.95m
• GDP 11.65tr (25,900 p/c)

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Welcome to the British Isles
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland

• Area 244,820 Km2
• Population 60,441,457
• GDP 1.782 tr (29,600 p/c)

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Edinburgh
York
Norwich
Peterborough
Ely
Cambridge
Oxford
London
Bath
Canterbury
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Glasgow
Newcastle
Leeds
Liverpool
Doncaster
Manchester
Sheffield
Cambridge
Cambridge
Oxford
Oxford
London
LONDON
Bath
Canterbury
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Welcome to East Anglia
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Welcome to Cambridge
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Welcome to Cambridge

• Roman fort, 1900 years ago
• Norman castle, 900 years ago
• Royal charter, 800 years ago
• Historic commercial centre
• Modern high technology focus today
• Tourism
• International education centre
• 2nd largest cluster for IT and largest Biotech
  cluster

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The University and the Colleges

• Refugees from Oxford 1209
• Group from Paris 1229
• First college Peterhouse 1284
• Last college Robinson 1977
• Corpus Christi College1352
• 31 colleges
• Roles of University and Colleges

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The University and the Colleges

• The University
• Teaches large groups 50-300
• Sets examinations and marks examinations
• Gives Degrees
• Organises/houses most of the research
• The College
• does everything else

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The University and Colleges

• Role of the Colleges
• Admission of the undergraduate students
• Houses and feeds students
• Pays for them to go to University
• Provides Tutor Director of Studies and
  Supervisor
• Takes the students to General Admission
• Post graduate student entry through Department
  as well as College

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Famous Names

• Sir Issac Newton
• Oliver Cromwell
• Lord Byron. William Wordsworth, Lord Tennyson
• Lord Mountbatten, Princes Charles and Edward
• Charles Darwin, Lord Rutherford
• Frank Whittle, Francis Crick, James Watson
• Prof Stephen Hawkins

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Kings College
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Bridge of Sighs
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Round Church
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Great Court, Trinity College
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Senate House
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Greetings from Cambridge
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Tourism

• 1 Day or short stay
• 4.1 million tourists per annum
• 15 of tourists to Cambridge stay in Cambridge
• 420million per annum
• Supports 5500 jobs full time jobs (8 of total)
  and 2000 part time jobs

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St Johns Innovation Centre
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Cambridge Science Park
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William Gates Building
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West Cambridge Site
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Cambridge in 21st Century
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Cluster Town
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City Centre Land Ownership
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Cluster routes

• A10 Cambridge Science Park
• St Johns Innovation Centre.
• Madingley Road Vets School
• Hills Road New Addenbrookes Hospital
• Cherry Hinton Road Hospital and Peterhouse land
• A14 has not happened. Why not when there is
  Peterborough?
• Address Location location location

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The making of a cluster town

• Source of good and enduring research
• Ability to link money with ideas
• Great minds young mind
• Institution to teach encourage and bring people
  together Cambridge Enterprise
• Network entrepreneurs and wealth
• Science Parks and Innovation Centres
• Help Angels, mentors
• Linking with other clusters cities Boston,
  Munich (Competitions)

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Cambridge Enterprise

• Cambridge Enterprise exists to help University
  of Cambridge inventors, innovators and
  entrepreneurs make their ideas and concepts more
  commercially successful for the benefit of
  society, the UK economy, the inventors and the
  University."

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Cambridge Enterprise

• Cambridge Enterprise encourages and supports the
  commercialisation of knowledge from all parts of
  the University. Services provided to academics
  include the identification, protection and
  licensing of IP support, advice and mentoring in
  the creation of new companies provision of seed
  funds and links to organisations providing
  further funding and costing, contract
  negotiation, invoicing, insurance and VAT support
  for staff who provide consultancy services to
  external organisations and links to industry
  through showcasing and networking events

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Cambridge Enterprise

• Figures shown are for the financial year ending
  31st July 2004.
• Inventions and patents 
• Number of Invention Disclosures 141
• Number of UK priority patent applications filed
  61
• Agreements 
• Licences and options granted 41
• Spinouts 5
• New start-ups assisted 28
• Consultancy contracts 93
• Confidentiality agreements 141
• Materials transfer agreements 244 

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Effect of the Region

• New life to Cambridge
• Buzz
• Attracted large ( wealthy) companies
• Wealth
• People
• High growth and wealth area (20 millionaires pa)
• High housing prices
• High cost of living
• Travel road/rail and public transport
• Lack of amenities for locals
• Lack of space to accommodate the people

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Welcome!

• A country long and proud history, small amount
  of space
• A country still managing the change of being part
  of the European Union
• A city with a long an enviable history of its
  University and Colleges and of its famous
  scholars
• A city that is managing change as it adapts to it
  new role in the 21st Century

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• Any questions?