Innovation: Harnessing the digital revolution and financial innovation to direct capital to sustainable business models
Why innovation matters
Digital technologies, from blockchain to big data, are transforming financial services. There is a growing appreciation of the transformative potential of harnessing this digital revolution to support broader efforts to direct capital to sustainable business models.
Pockets of promising innovation are evident around the world. But these are the exception, not the rule.
What is CISL is doing about it?
Cambridge produces world-renowned research in this area, ranging from its Big Data Strategic Research Initiative to the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance and the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, which Cambridge hosts.
Cambridge is also Europe’s most successful technology cluster. Underpinned by world-leading science, there are over 4,300 companies in the Cambridge Cluster including 16 $1bn firms.
Against this backdrop, CISL leads finance and business collaborations to prove sustainable fintech concepts in practice. We also work with governments and industry groups to embed what we learn into broader innovation processes.