Our partnerships greatly increase the possibilities and impact of our work, intensifying the economic impact and bringing huge benefits to society.
CORDE is the national facility for physics. Supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UKRI), it provides access to our equipment, resources and knowledge base – giving you the chance to conduct research using facilities and expertise unique to Cambridge.
Bringing together academia and industry, the Centre offers opportunities to collaborate through programmes, workspace, research facilities and projects, with the overall goal of increasing economic impact within the UK.
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Maxwell Centre Programmes include
With a mission to accelerate progress towards meeting zero carbon targets, the Demo Lab recruits interdisciplinary cohorts of researchers to work in teams to tackle challenge-driven “sprintshop” projects relating to climate change.
Impulse is an action-learning programme designed to accelerate the transformation of high-potential innovations into viable commercial propositions. Participants are supported by experienced entrepreneurs and trailblazers from the world-renowned Cambridge innovation cluster, both during the programme and beyond.
Royce is the UK’s national institute for advanced materials research and innovation, funded by the EPSRC. Royce provides a network of open access deposition, fabrication and characterisation facilities at the University of Cambridge. Their aim is to drive the development of energy-efficient materials. All equipment is available for use by academia and industry nationally, seed funding is often available.
The Department has a number of formal collaborations with industrial partners, international organisations and with partners across the University. Together we are breaking new frontiers in healthcare, energy and technology and leading the way through ambitious research which tackles the big questions we face as a society. You can find more information here.