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Forest Heath District Council is working in partnership with Cambridgeshire Chambers of Commerce and Newmarket & District Chamber of Commerce for a new business exhibition. The Two Counties Business Exhibition will take place on Wednesday, February 29, 11am - 4pm at, Millennium Grandstand, Rowley Mile Racecourse, Newmarket. Exhibiting businesses will have the…  Read more

Energy Reducing Products (ERP) today announced that St. John’s Innovation Centre, Cambridge has selected ERP’s ELIMINATA® energy savers as a key part of their energy saving and de-carbonisation programme. Businesses waste around 8% of their total electricity spend by leaving office equipment switched on but unused overnight and over…  Read more

At February’s meeting of the Cambridge Business and Professional Club in Queens’ College, SJIC director David Gill was the guest speaker, taking as his theme the way funding for entrepreneurial businesses has evolved since the financial crash of 2008. “The new capitalism”, as he called it, has emerged as traditional means…  Read more

SJIC tenants, XJTAG and Cambridge Wireless, have been working with the organisers of National Electronics Week (NEW)  to support and promote the first Mega UK Expo – an event which will see eight manufacturing exhibitions co-located at the NEC at the same time (18-19…  Read more

Design Icons: Cambridge Innovation Festival is a celebration of Cambridge design talent with an exhibition recognising important products designed in Cambridgeshire over the last 40 years.  Early-stage businesses succeed by having talented, skilled people working together to effectively develop and build creative products that people want.  Design delivers business value with…  Read more

Cambridge event proves companies will grow 10x in a year - if they have the right team in place 

On Thursday 16^th February 2012, six of the region’s young entrepreneurs will pitch to an audience of senior executives, value added business angels and serial entrepreneurs to find talented…  Read more

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Following publication last week of the Centre for Cities report showing Cambridge to be one of the best cities for economic performance, BBC TV news came to the St John's Innovation Centre to find out more. SJIC tenant Steve Tyson of Cambrionix was interviewed for the…  Read more

Three of the experienced in-house advisers and business coaches at St John’s Innovation Centre have been awarded a CMI level 5 award in Management Coaching and Mentoring. Whilst all have extensive experience in working with a wide variety of businesses, Janette Pallas, David Moir and Kirsten Masson attended a High-growth Coach…  Read more

SJIC has successfully delivered the regional “Understanding Finance for Business” and “Coaching for High Growth” programmes, helping companies in the region to raise over £16M in grant, equity and bank finance. Over 1100 companies attended workshops delivered around the region, and over 250 companies received 1:1 mentoring or coaching…  Read more

St John’s Innovation Centre has provided Arthur Rank Hospice Charity with a cheque for £657 plus a further £100 cash. Arthur Rank Hospice Charity has been SJIC’s Charity of the Year.  Tenants and staff regularly took part in fundraising activities, from painting the - male - MD’s fingernails to fancy dress. In…  Read more

Altacor, the specialist ophthalmology company, is expanding. It has appointed two experienced product specialists, Alison Jones for the East of England and Ceri Myles for the South East, to help drive awareness of its Clinitas dry-eye treatment products with…  Read more

Offshore engineering specialists, Aquaterra Energy Ltd has opened an office in Cambridge, UK to develop the analysis service currently offered by the business to global oil and gas companies. Norwich-based Aquaterra Energy has been offering a Riser Analysis service since the company’s inception in 2005. The department provides a…  Read more

Following an extensive market search, Hawksford, the award winning wealth structuring company, has chosen SJIC tenant, Jobstream, to provide a full trust administration system with integrated workflow. Hawksford was particularly impressed with the new Jobstream 9.2 software which incorporates Customer Lifecycle Management and Role-Based Interface functionality. In addition, the company saw…  Read more

Neglected mid-sized businesses missing out on technology says SJIC director

Supporting open innovation between mid-sized businesses and early-stage companies would allow UK plc to derive greater benefit from its thriving technology sector and would make a…  Read more

St John’s Innovation Centre tenant UltraSoC Technologies, the pioneering company developing advanced debugging technology for embedded electronic systems, today announced the appointment of Matthew Trowbridge as Non-Executive Chairman. Matthew will play a key role in the development of the Company as it continues to grow and develop its innovative and…  Read more

SJIC Tenant Amantys Ltd, the intelligent power switch company, has unveiled its vision for the power electronics industry to improve the efficiency and reliability of power switching. This needs a new approach: tight control at the core of the system, right by the transistor; remote control and monitoring of…  Read more

ViewRanger is delighted to be helping Matt Baker with his Rickshaw Challenge for Children in Need, by providing real-time location tracking. Using the BuddyBeacon feature of the ViewRanger mobile app, Matt’s supporters and the public can follow live progress of his epic journey by rickshaw from Edinburgh to London, which…  Read more

David Cameron paid tribute to the Local Business Accelerators campaign launched by Britain’s regional and local newspapers, describing it as an “excellent initiative” aimed at giving practical support to small businesses across the UK. The Prime Minister said: “In towns and cities across the country, local and regional newspapers are helping…  Read more

Cambridge’s first ever social media site purely for startups – and one of the first in the world – has been created by a new Business Weekly spin-out, Cambridge Elevator.com. The new venture is launched on November 10 with a £15k kickstart competition, support from…  Read more

Boost your Business is a new programme of business support for Huntingdonshire-based companies to boost business performance and develop professional skills. Delivered by St John’s Innovation Centre on behalf of Huntingdonshire District Council, the Boost your Business programme consists of a coaching programme and a series of workshops to…  Read more