UK Science & Innovation Minister Visits Cambashi

Lord Drayson, Minister for Science and Innovation, visited Cambashi’s offices in Cambridge on 31st March where he met a small group of executives from Cambridge’s high technology cluster. The meeting was facilitated by the prospective parliamentary candidate for
Cambridge, Daniel Zeichner.

Build on success

“Lord Drayson came to hear from Cambridge entrepreneurs at first hand,” said Mike Evans, research director at Cambashi. “We were able to make a number of suggestions that would improve focus on sectors where Cambridge leads the world, such as software for engineering and manufacturing.”

The entrepreneurs pointed to significant successes of innovative UK companies in engineering, design and manufacturing and the value of increasing government officials’ awareness of this. It was recognized that while there were many good government initiatives, there are more opportunities to help companies grow faster and to a greater size. For example, David Cleevely, Chairman of ABCAM suggested improving government procurement processes to eliminate any unconscious bias against innovative small companies. 

Continuing effort

The entrepreneurs agreed to reach out to their network of contacts in the Cambridge cluster to identify specific ways that the government’s initiatives could be improved in order to generate faster growth for innovative companies. For his part, Lord Drayson committed to continue the dialogue.

About Cambashi

Cambashi, based in Cambridge UK, provides independent research and analysis of the business reasons to use of IT in industry world-wide. Its specialist fields include Engineering and Enterprise applications and the infrastructure to enable industrial firms to use IT effectively. Cambashi publishes market size estimates in the Engineering Applications Market Observatory. Its clients vary in size from small to large and include most of the leading software vendors and many pioneering IT users. Cambashi is a member of CATN, an international association of consultants.

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At Cambashi                                                          

Claire McMahon-Lee                                                 

Cambashi Limited                                                    

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Cambridge                                                              

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United Kingdom                                                       

Tel: +44(0)1223 460439                                           

+44(0)1223 461055                                                  

claire.mcmahon-lee@cambashi.co.uk                          

URL: www.cambashi.com

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