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Optimising material in design innovation
Mark discusses how the interplay between choice of materials and product design provides unique opportunities for innovation.
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Who hit the jackpot at CES 2020?
Chris Houghton, CDP’s Brand Innovation Leader reviews the world’s largest consumer product expo, CES 2020 in Las Vegas. Sharing his insights and observations from start-ups to high rollers, all hoping for the jackpot from their latest innovations. Innovation success or failure is often determined by how a brand or company…
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CDP opens new building at their Cambridge HQ
Cambridge Design Partnership recycles ten old shipping containers to create a new upcycled office building. As you’d expect from a business specialising in innovation, when it came to extending their company HQ at rapid pace, they came up with a rather clever plan.CDP have just opened a remarkable new building…
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AI in healthcare, separating facts from fiction
James Baker, partner at Cambridge Design Partnership, considers the future for AI in the real world with help from a sideways look at its portrayal on the big screen.
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2020: Decade of the drones
Adam predicts what will be flying around the corner towards us next year.
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Tipping the innovation odds in your favour
Earlier this month I attended The Market Research Event (TMRE) conference in Las Vegas; the gambling capital of the world. Whilst I don’t think the juxtaposition between the conference and its choice of location was intentional, it certainly presented an amusing analogy between the dollars that consumers put into the slot machines…
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Separating new value from clinical trials
Richard proposes how innovation in blood processing could revolutionise clinical trial design.
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Renal vasculature and Chronic Kidney Disease
Karla shows us how modelling renal vasculature can help better understand CKD.
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The patient is center stage at this year’s PDA Europe
The 2019 Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) Europe event was held recently in the beautiful Swedish city of Gothenburg, hosting over 950 attendees, including over 130 exhibiting companies – of which CDP was one. It’s always a great opportunity to catch up with industry colleagues, meet new ones and to hear…
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What’s the secret to designing great digital services?
Earlier this month, the Service Design Global Conference in Toronto really illustrated how design – as a way to integrate the needs of people, technology possibilities and business requirements to create products and services – is becoming part of mainstream business mentality. However, as the pace of new technology quickens…
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CDP shortlisted for employee ownership award
Cambridge Design Partnership (CDP) has been shortlisted for a national award thanks to its business success since transitioning into employee ownership. In 2018, CDP made a major shift to become fully employee owned and in October this year the firm learned that it has reached the finals of the UK…
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Preparing for the new IVD regulations
It may seem like there is plenty of time before the new IVD (in vitro diagnostics) regulation (IVDR) [EU 2017/746] comes into effect. The deadline for transfer is 2 years later than that for medical devices [EU 2017/745], so May 2022 might seem distant. However, given the changes that are…