IfM Podcasts

The IfM produces audio podcasts, usually in the form of an interview with an expert in a particular subject area. These are stored on the University's media streaming server in various 'collections'. Clicking on a link below will take you to the streaming server page where you can listen to the podcast.

IfM Briefings podcasts

IfM briefings are short documents intended to give readers relevant information to gain an understanding of and insight into a particular subject area (Click here for a list of available briefing documents).
IfM briefing podcasts are the audio equivalent of the briefing documents.

• Mark Champkins - inventor extraordinaire - http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1166561
• Professor Jonathan Linton - Research in technology management - http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1130637
• Letizia Mortara - Getting Help with open Innovation: Role of Intemediaries - http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1120480
• Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick speech at the IfM - http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1118398
• Industrial innovation for local and sub-regional economic development - http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/848126
• Oliver Gajek - Building a Technology Startup in Germany - http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1109182
• Manufacturing Footprint Strategy

Open innovation report interviews

• Roland Harwood - http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/761497
• Harry Barraza - http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/761510
• Ruth Thomson - http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/761523

Webinars

• Business Model Innovation in Services: Creating New Value - http://www.manufacturing-executive.com/community/executive_education/seminar_4
• Managing Supply Chain Risk in Turbulent Times - listen to a recording here
• How do you make open innovation a success? - listen to a recording here

Manufacturing Thursdays Seminars

Podcasts of interviews with the presenters of the 'Manufacturing Thursdays' seminar series. Manufacturing Thursdays is a programme of free evening presentations organised by the University of Cambridge Institute for Manufacturing (IfM). It is open to the local business community and all staff and students of the University of Cambridge. The presentations span all aspects of manufacturing processes, technology and management and provide networking opportunities over refreshments.

• Making a Management Buyout Work - Lessons from Coventry
• What does the future hold for Britain’s biggest manufacturing sector?
• 50 years of lasers: working at the speed of light
• Collapse of the 'Funding Escalator' in the Greater Cambridge area
• Configuring international supply chains: an integrated operations perspective - findings from research and practice
• Contrasting attitudes to innovation support across industry and government
• Cut waste, boost revenue: Practical examples from industry
• Emerging Clean Technology Industries in the United States
• Implementing open innovation: lessons from multi-national companies
• Ink-jet printing in micro-manufacturing: opportunities and limitations
• International design scoreboard: where the UK ranks and why it matters
• Roadmapping for agile strategy - linking technology to business objectives
• Servitization strategy of manufacturing firms: evidence from practice
• Shaping research for industrial innovation
• The Cambridge Technology Cluster - a blueprint for the future?
• The Emergence of New Industries
• The future of supply chain data management
• The Natural Step: a unifying framework for sustainable development
• The Servitization of Manufacturing
• Through-life management of industrial assets
• What does 'open innovation' mean for the Cambridge high tech cluster?