
The latest thought leadership from our expert teams

The future of vertical farming: the intelligent ecosystem
Vertical farming promises a step change in production density, providing significant efficiency savings with the additional benefit of improved product quality. Vertical farming also presents the only viable option for growing crops within urban environments...
- AI & Analytics
- Innovation management
- Mechanical engineering
- Robotics
- Sensing

Extracting value from e-waste
Year on year we’re producing more and more waste electronics – e-waste. Recovering the valuable materials embedded in e-waste will become significantly more important. At present this is a highly manual process...
- AI & Analytics
- Innovation management
- Sensing

The drug-free approach for managing menopausal hot flushes
This new whitepaper provides insights gained from a series of workshops into women's experiences of menopausal hot flushes, and how these insights can inform the design of (drug-free)...
- Digital health
- Innovation management

Building the business of biodesign
Synthetic biology remains nascent, yet full of promise. The idea of using rational engineering approaches to design biology has the potential to solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges, such as securing food supplies...
- Bioinnovation
- Innovation management
- Product realisation
- Strategic advice

Three visions for ophthalmology
Among the participants at Cambridge Consultants unique ophthalmology technology innovation workshop were three renowned leaders in their respective fields, Professor Robert MacLaren, Elizabeth Yeu MD and Grayson Armstrong MD. In these exclusive interviews, they share their expert insights and their aspirations for the future of ophthalmology…
- Digital health
- Human factors
- Innovation management
- Strategic advice

Global partnership with MedTech Innovator
Cambridge Consultants expands its innovation partnership with MedTech Innovator to help accelerate medtech start ups
- Digital health
- Innovation management
- Strategic advice

From bench to scale: our workshop insights for tough tech start ups
It soon becomes crunch time for an entrepreneurial start up with a ground-breaking idea in tough tech innovation. While exploring some of the details of CC’s workshop approach, Roger Mainwaring-Burton reveal the secrets of taking a product, service or company from benchtop to scale to success in the market…
- Innovation management
- Product realisation
- Project management
- Strategic advice

Trusting autonomy and ensuring quantum resilience for government as security threats emerge
Potential quantum attacks on government agencies and the military are part and parcel of the changing security landscape. In turn, government organizations are exploring the use of quantum for defense security, as well as the efficiencies of future states that these technologies will enable for mission-critical operations.
- Innovation management
- Product realisation
- Project management
- Strategic advice

Quantum cloud computing plus digital service innovation will equal commercial advantage
What is quantum computing? That’s a question still being asked by much of the world’s C-suite. But here at CC our multidisciplinary teams of physicists, engineers and designers are already helping to plot a credible pathway for a future powered by quantum technologies…
- Cloud/scalable systems
- Digital service innovation
- Innovation management
- Strategic advice

Unconventional outlook: medtech innovation in 2023
2022 was a rollercoaster year for medtech innovation, with a dramatic slow-down of venture funding, multi-national corporations (MNCs) hitting inflationary, recessionary, and geo-political headwinds, new emerging technologies, and the sprinkling of game-changing M&A. Rahul Sathe shares his predictions on medtech’s innovation outlook for 2023.
- Digital health
- Digital service innovation
- Innovation management
- Strategic advice

Desirability, Viability, Feasibility
So you have a physical/digital innovation idea, but what now? Not everyone knows how to embark on the road to a new market breakthrough – or has the confidence to overcome natural hesitancy. At CC, we believe in the design thinking approach known as DVF (Desirability, Viability, Feasibility).
- Connectivity & IoT
- Digital service innovation
- Innovation management
- Strategic advice

Quantum sensing technology for the life sciences – exploring the potential
Swiss company Qnami, a leader in quantum sensing technology, tasked us with identifying potential applications in the biomedical area where NV magnetometry could provide clinical value and open new commercial avenues.
- AI & Analytics
- Innovation management
- Physical sciences
- Strategic advice