
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

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

Technology to help make a positive change
Isobel Ashbey is the Tech for Good Lead within the Industrial, Consumer and Energy Division and when the war in Ukraine began, was left thinking, what can Cambridge Consultants do to help?
- Innovation management
- Strategic advice

Six innovative Asia medtech start-ups to watch
Asia’s medical technology market is predicted to account for a third of global medical technology sales by 2025. As such, it's a hotbed for start-ups, so here are our six innovative start-ups to watch that are part of this year’s MedTech Innovator cohort.
- Bioinnovation
- Digital health
- Innovation management
- User Experience (UX)

It’s time to put a sustainability vision at the heart of drug delivery product design
Lizzie Thomas presents her case for designing improved, sustainable drug delivery devices. Currently, the approach is dominated at the outset by patient-centricity. This focus means that wider, more long-term implications simply aren’t considered early enough.
- Digital health
- Human factors
- Innovation management
- Strategic advice
- Sustainability

The inspiring personal story behind a game-changing solution to glue ear in children
Singapore company NousQ has created a robotic, automated, sensor-controlled, handheld applicator called CLiXX® that promises to revolutionize ventilation ear tube surgery for children.
- Human factors
- Innovation management
- Product realisation
- Robotics
- Sensing

Start-up technology can be risky business if threats aren’t tackled hard and early
Founders of early-stage start-ups are characteristically passionate, driven and optimistic. Understandably so. Very often they are nurturing a breakthrough idea with the capacity to disrupt business and change the world for the better. So, as they embark on the mission to sell their vision, they should accentuate the positive and keep negative thoughts of risk to the back of their mind, right? Wrong.
- AI & Analytics
- Bioinnovation
- Connectivity & IoT
- Innovation management
- Project management
- Robotics
- Strategic advice
- Synthetic biology

HBx, the tiny green dot that could spur the air industry towards net zero
Decarbonising aviation is a herculean task. Even an aircraft as fuel efficient as Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner uses 30 tonnes of kerosene to fly across the Atlantic. Batteries can’t be expected to achieve the power to weight ratio needed to replace this fuel. For all the interest in green hydrogen and related synthetic fuels it will be decades before a truly zero-carbon airliner can be expected to be carrying passengers.
- Bioinnovation
- Innovation management
- Strategic advice

Our team was up for the challenge of the British Antarctic Survey’s Decarbonisation Hackathon
CC put forward a team to take part in the British Antarctic Survey’s Decarbonisation Hackathon. The aim was to find new solutions to completely decarbonise the Rothera research base in Antarctica, beyond those that British Antarctic Survey (BAS) had determined could account for the first 70% of their energy demand.
- Innovation management
- Strategic advice
- Sustainability