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Unlocking potential
Scaling up, attracting world
HQs, trading and investing
– and keen to work with
regions closest to home
From a small market city, Cambridge
is accelerating, starting and scaling
up some of the world’s leading high-
growth companies
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Source: Dr Paul Heffernan, Institute for Manufacturing
High skill employment in Cambridge businesses
doubled in 10 years in home-grown and incoming
companies. 25% are knowledge intensive
15 home-
grown
valued at
>$1bn
Alcatel Lucent
Amgen
Apple
AstraZeneca
Bayer
Broadcom
Brother
Cancer Research
Carl Zeiss
Citrix
Genzyme
GSK
Hitachi
HP
Huawei
Illumina
Intel
Medical Research Council
Microsoft Research
Napp
Pfizer
Philips
Qualcomm
Siemens
Takeda
Toshiba
Unilever
Wellcome Trust
Big organisations join for the cluster
More than 15,250 Tech companies since the 60s Now over 4,000 knowledge intensive companies
Less than 1.7% unemployment
‘Explosion of
companies’
We thought 73,000
people were employed
in tech, but we hadn’t
counted the institutions
…so we’re re-counting
Cambridge trusted to re-
invest its business tax
growth, although…
Cambridge
‘devolved powers’
UK Budget March 2015
Abcam, ARM, Autonomy, AVEVA,
CAT, Chiroscience, CSR, Domino,
Ionica, Marshall, Solexa, Virata, Xaar
15 companies have scaled from zero to
$1bn
JOBS
Top 50 companies
hired 6000+
people in past year
Cambridge Growth
and
still
growing
WEALTH
Top 50
increased
their
revenue by
£1.3bn
UP
17.6%
The Universities, technical
consultancies, IP, investors,
professional services, networks,
recruitment, training, sharing,
learning…
The infrastructure
develops
We learn from each other and share
With advanced manufacturing, stem cell research, radio
communications, health and wellness, web technology,
bio-technology, smart cities, graphene
research, advanced printing, video game and mobile
applications, clean energy companies and
more – see the number of cranes everywhere!
Cambridge has
cranes and bikes…
Presentation designed by Kevin Coleman of Alliantus Ltd Photographs © K. Coleman, 2013.
Images not to be reproduced or re-purposed without permission.
Impact on
Hertfordshire?
The growth needs space, houses, skills
development.
Spreading the impact can lead to more
industry and jobs in Hertfordshire
STEM skills
development? The University of Hertfordshire and others are
welcome to join with us in providing the most
needed skills. Tertiary colleges are good on
technical training. Training will also build
industry and start-ups in Hertfordshire
Cambridge growth – inventions,
engineering and building businesses –
welcomes collaboration
Claire Ruskin
CEO Cambridge Network
www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk