Dr Shima Barakat, Research and Teaching Fellow at Centre for Entrepreneurship Learning, Cambridge Judge Business School, recently attended the RiseUp summit in Egypt where she was a keynote speaker at one of the panel discussions. In her speech Shima highlighted…
Universities can help academic discoveries avoid venture capital pitfalls, says research at Cambridge Judge Business School
Universities can play a big role in helping scientific advances attract venture capital and avoid the “academic valley of death” that often defeats discoveries,…
The challenge today is that traditional venture capital has largely moved away from early stage innovations, seeking the safety of more developed, de-risked technologies for their portfolio pipeline. By contrast, the pharmaceutical industry has demonstrated a growing interest in this…
Dr Shima Barakat will today (5 March) join a group of 126 female academics in launching a new book that challenges what academic success means and how it should be measured.
Shima, a Research & Teaching Fellow in Enterprise based…
