Library

A working bibliography for the From Science to Growth thesis. Each entry is annotated with one line explaining its relevance.

Data sources

Beauhurst — the source of most published valuations and the principal data provider for the Ring Hall of Fame. Publishes The Sunday Times 100.
Companies House — the underlying corporate-status data for UK Ring companies.
Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology — Ring Hall of Fame — the official curated list.
The Sunday Times 100 — the Beauhurst-compiled list of the UK’s fastest-growing private companies.

The Cambridge Phenomenon — the longstanding observation that Cambridge has produced an unusually high concentration of successful technology companies relative to its size. Best summarised in Segal Quince Wicksteed’s 1985 report and updated work since.
The Cambridge Network, Cambridge Angels, Cambridge Wireless, Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) — examples of light, persistent network structures across the cluster, each amplifying connectivity in a different domain. (Several founded by Dr David Cleevely.)

HM Treasury, Science and Innovation Report, 2004 — sets out the policy framing that the 2006 From Science to Growth lecture interrogates.
The Lambert Review of Business-University Collaboration (2003) — commissioned by Gordon Brown and led by Richard Lambert.
Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) — the principal UK funding mechanism for university Third Stream activity.
Beauhurst, UK university spinouts since 2011 — the data behind the observation that around 4% of UK university spinouts have reached “established” status.

Brad Feld, Startup Communities — on the long-term, community-led construction of startup ecosystems.
AnnaLee Saxenian, Regional Advantage — on the role of inter-firm mobility and information flow in Silicon Valley’s outperformance of Route 128.
Mariana Mazzucato, The Entrepreneurial State — on the public origins of much technology innovation, with relevance to the framing of network amplification as infrastructure.
The McKinsey Alumni Network — cited in the 2026 essay as one of the models for the Ring.
Stanford alumni initiatives — the speaker series, the jobs email and other lightweight persistent structures that the Ring imports and adapts.

Why the Cambridge Computer Lab Ring matters and what it really tells us — with Dr David Cleevely, January 2026.
From Science to Growth, Hughes Hall City Lecture — March 2006.
Seedcamp Sales Tales, Chronicles of Craft — on Medium.