Distinguished SYE Seminar Series
Creating Impact through Innovation: The Cambridge Story
| Date | 2 JUL 2024 (Tue) |
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| Time | 9:30 am - 11:30 am |
| Speaker | Professor Andy Neely Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Cambridge (2017-2024) |
| Venue | YEUNG-P4701 |
Abstract
Having served for seven years as Pro-Vice-Chancellor: Enterprise and Business Relations, Professor Andy Neely has an unparalleled insight into the Cambridge Innovation ecosystem. In this seminar, Andy will describe how the Cambridge innovation ecosystem has developed, what challenges this has raised and how Cambridge is now seeking to overcome these challenges and ensure that it continues to deliver impact through innovation.
About the Speaker
Professor Andy Neely is Professor of Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. His previous appointments include Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor: Enterprise and Business Relations at the University of Cambridge, Head of the Institute for Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge, Royal Academy of Engineering Professor of Complex Services at the University of Cambridge, Deputy Director of the Advanced Institute of Management Research, a UK national research programme and the Director of the Centre for Business Performance at Cranfield University.
As Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor (2017-2024) at the University of Cambridge he had responsibility for all of the University’s activities relating to innovation, commercialisation, startups and spinouts. He sat on the boards of Cambridge Enterprise, the University’s technology transfer business and Cambridge Innovation Capital, a venture capital fund. He played a leading role in establishing Innovate Cambridge, a city-wide initiative to develop a community-based innovation strategy for Cambridge. Professor Neely was elected a fellow of the Sunningdale Institute in 2005, a fellow of the British Academy of Management in 2007, an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2008, and a fellow of the European Operations Management Association in 2009.
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