An Evaluation of the Cambridge-MIT Institute
This report presents findings from an evaluation of the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI), a £65M experimental programme of collaboration between two of the world's leading research universities.
CMI did achieve its objectives in broad measure. It did deliver a programme of excellent research with good innovation potential; it did deliver some measurable economic impacts; it did deliver a programme of educational innovations, which have led to institutional learning and equipped students, faculty and technology transfer professionals with new knowledge and skills; and it did manage to share at least some of this insight and learning with the wider academic community. In addition, it has contributed to changed attitudes within the senior management teams at both participating universities, reaffirming the role of interdisciplinary research and the value of international collaboration to even the largest and strongest research universities. CMI's legacy is evident amongst senior academics too, with several having become prominent advocates of this mode of working.
CMI work has contributed to the evolution in policy and practice within the research and innovation community, with new policies and programmes that clearly bear its imprimatur, from the Technology Strategy Board's Innovation Platforms to the European Institute of Innovation and Technology's Knowledge and Innovation Communities.