Professor Peter Landshoff

Cambridge-MITInstitute

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Please collaborate with us

• Our remit from Gordon Brown is to help UK academics have more impact on the economy

• It is not easy

• MIT has helped us learn a lot

• We want to share our knowledge

• Join us to try to do it still better

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CMI Strategy

3 strategic thrusts:

Education

Research

Knowledge exchange with industry

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First phase (up to 2006) had money for research

Next phase (being negotiated) will only have money to facilitate the provision of benefit to industry, the economy and the public good

As well as educational innovation and enhancing the regions

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Energy sustainability

Financial Innovation

Future Healthcare

Creative Industries

Transport

Construction industry

EXAMPLES OF PROJECTS

Benefit to industry and the public good

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Example: biologyResearch project: next-generation drug

discovery

(cut down the cost of new drugs)

MPhil degree in computational biology

Undergraduate courses in biological engineering

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Master’s degree

MPhil in Computational Biology

Combines technical material with 48 hours of lectures on

management of technology and innovation

and sends students into industry for

part of the course

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Biological engineering

Gives undergraduate engineers enough biology and enough mathematics to contribute to an exciting new sector of the economy

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To help industry, eg transport, we need

access to a variety of expertise in more than one university

By joining together, the academics will contribute more effectively

And have more impact on their region

And have a better chance of pulling in funding

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It is very exciting

There are huge opportunities to enable the UK to maintain its economic strength in the face of increasing world competition

And to give the public a better deal