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Major gift to promote entrepreneurship at Cambridge |
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| 04/02/2008 | |
| An £8 million gift to the University of Cambridge from a leading UK entrepreneur and business angel was announced on 31 January 2008. The Centre for Entrepreneurship, a major new focal point for the promotion of entrepreneurship, will be created as the result of funding from the Hauser-Raspe Foundation, on behalf of Hermann Hauser and his wife Pamela Raspe. The Hauser Forum at West Cambridge, the Universitys growing science and technology campus, will comprise two landmark buildings sited by JJ Thomson Avenue, opposite the world-famous Cavendish Laboratory. The Centre for Entrepreneurship will be home to Cambridge Enterprise, the Universitys science and technology commercialisation office, with offices, incubation spaces and a seminar centre. A Café Atrium will provide a much-needed social space for the entire West Cambridge site and will enhance engagement with the wider business community. Cambridge Enterprise exists to help University of Cambridge inventors, innovators and entrepreneurs make their ideas and concepts more commercially successful for the benefit of society, the UK economy, the inventors and the University. Services include intellectual property management, bespoke marketing, negotiation of technology licences and consultancy services. Dr. Hermann Hauser is a graduate of the University and founder of Acorn Computers. He was instrumental in establishing the Cambridge Network, which links like minded people from business and academia to each other and to the global high technology community for the benefit of the Cambridge region. |
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