Could Cambridge Be Twice As Good At Twice The Size?

It feels like we now receive news almost weekly about the plans for the Oxford-Cambridge Arc, and the associated developments in and around Cambridge aimed at incubating new start-ups and university spinouts by providing offices, laboratories, and other facilities.

Cambridge has long punched above its weight economically, and the city has been ranked as the most intensive science and technology cluster (based on patent applications per capita) in the world.

To capitalise further on this, as reported in the Financial Times this week, the current plans for the city include a new purpose-built, 80,000 square foot "innovation hub" to bring together founders and investors and feed into the anticipated "supercluster" between Oxford and Cambridge, on which much of the UK government's hopes for economic growth are pinned.