Cambridge Cluster Insights Resource for Researchers
Academic researchers who wish to delve deeper into the data can do so by gaining accreditation from The Centre for Business Research (CBR). You will be expected to sign an accreditation agreement which will mandate sharing your research with The Centre for Business Research. Once accredited, you will be able to access and download the data for further interrogation. In order to gain accreditation, please contact us by submitting a message.
This page contains links to useful documents that explain more about the data underlying the Cambridge Cluster Insights resource. This page is also dedicated to academics who wish to carry out further research on the data that has been gathered to create the Cambridge Cluster Insights resource. Research resulting from this third party data analysis of the resource will be posted and be publicly-available here.
Gaining Access
In order to do gain access to the full data behind the Cambridge Cluster Insights resource, potential researchers must submit a request via a form, please contact us for details. This will be automatically submitted to Dr Andy Cosh, Assistant Director at The Centre for Business Research of the University of Cambridge. In your submission, you should explain why you are requesting access to the database and also where the results of your research will be published (printed publication/website/other). You will be expected to sign an accreditation agreement which will include sharing your research with the Centre for Business Research. Unfortunately, due to the terms of the licence for the supply of the data to the CBR, only academic researchers can gain accreditation.
Downloadable documents
- Summary tables by sectors (doc published Feb 2025)
- Summary tables by firm size (doc published Feb 2025)
- Business demography tables (doc published Feb 2025)
- Summary tables by districts (doc published Feb 2025)
- Non-corporate research institutions table (doc published Feb 2025)
- About companies on the Cambridge Cluster Map (doc published Feb 2025)
- CBR database methodology (doc published Feb 2025)
- Summary tables by sectors (doc published Feb 2024)
- Summary tables by firm size (doc published Feb 2024)
- Business demography tables (doc published Feb 2024)
- Summary tables by districts (doc published Feb 2024)
- Non-corporate research institutions table (doc published Feb 2024)
- About companies on the Cambridge Cluster Map (doc published Feb 2024)
- CBR database methodology (doc published Feb Feb 2024)
- Summary tables by sectors (doc published Feb 2023)
- Summary tables by firm size (doc published Feb 2023)
- Business demography tables (doc published Feb 2023)
- Summary tables by districts (doc published Feb 2023)
- Non-corporate research institutions table (doc published Feb 2023)
- About companies on the Cambridge Cluster Map (doc published Feb 2023)
- CBR database methodology (doc published Feb 2023)
- Summary tables by sectors (doc published Feb 2022)
- Summary tables by firm size (doc published Feb 2022)
- Business demography tables (doc published Feb 2022)
- Summary tables by districts (doc published Feb 2022)
- Non-corporate research institutions table (doc published Feb 2022)
- About Companies on the Cambridge Cluster Map document (doc published Feb 2022)
- CBR database methodology document (doc published Feb 2022)
- Summary tables by sectors (doc published March 2021)
- Summary tables by firm size (doc published March 2021)
- Business demography tables (doc published March 2021)
- Summary tables by districts (doc published March 2021)
- Non-corporate research institutions table (doc published March 2021)
- About Companies on the Cambridge Cluster Map document (doc published March 2021)
- CBR database methodology document (doc published March 2021)
- Data tables showing the sectoral composition, global turnover and global employment of Cambridge-based companies, and the changes in these since 2011-12 up to 2018-19 (doc published April 2020).
- Summary tables by sectors GCP Feb 2020 rev (doc published April 2020)
- Summary tables by sectors Combined Authority Feb 2020 (doc published April 2020)
- Summary tables by sectors Cambridge Ahead Feb 2020 rev (doc published April 2020)
- Summary tables by sectors 4 districts Feb 2020 (doc published April 2020)
- Summary tables by sectors 3 districts Feb 2020 (doc published April 2020)
- Summary tables by districts South Cambridgeshire Feb 2020 rev (doc published April 2020)
- Summary tables by districts Peterborough Feb 2020 (doc published April 2020)
- Summary tables by districts Huntingdonshire Feb 2020 (doc published April 2020)
- Summary tables by districts Fenland Feb 2020 (doc published April 2020)
- Summary tables by districts East Cambridgeshire Feb 2020 rev (doc published April 2020)
- Summary tables by districts Cambridge Feb 2020 (doc published April 2020)
- Data tables showing the sectoral composition, global turnover and global employment of Cambridge-based companies, and the changes in these since 2011-12 up to 2017-18 (doc published April 2019).
- Data table on non-corporate research institutions since 2012-13 up to 2017-18 (doc published April 2019).
- Data tables on firm size from 2011-12 up to 2017-18 (doc published April 2019).
- Data tables on summary sectoral composition, global turnover and global employment of the six districts that comprise the Combined Authority, and the changes in these since 2011-12 up to 2017-18 (doc published April 2019).
- The corporate anatomy of the Combined Authority (doc published July 2018)
- Foreign Ownership and Ownership changes in the Combined Authority (doc published July 2018)
- Corporate sectors – Executive Summary (doc published July 2018)
- Corporate sectors – Cambridge (doc published July 2018)
- Corporate sectors – East Cambridgeshire (doc published July 2018)
- Corporate sectors – Fenland (doc published July 2018)
- Corporate sectors – Huntingdonshire (doc published July 2018)
- Corporate sectors – Peterborough (doc published July 2018)
- Corporate sectors – South Cambridgeshire (doc published July 2018)
- Table 1 Employment & turnover by narrow sectors 2010-17 (doc published May 2018)
- Table 2 Employment & turnover by broad sectors 2010-17 (doc published May 2018)
- Table 3 Corporate Growth by narrow sectors 2010-17 (doc published May 2018)
- Table 4 Corporate Growth by broad sectors 2010-17 (doc published May 2018)
- Table 5 Employment & turnover by firm size 2010-17 (doc published May 2018)
- Table 6 Corporate Growth by firm size 2010-17 (doc published May 2018)
- Table 7 Cambridge Ahead firm demography (doc published May 2018)
- Table 8 Growth composition – Cambridge Ahead companies (doc published May 2018)
- Table 9 Contribution to growth from continuing companies etc (doc published May 2018)
- Table 10 Non-corporate research institutions (doc published May 2018)
- Table 11 Summary of employment level 2010-17 – 6 districts (doc published May 2018)
- Table 12 Summary of employment growth 2010-17 – 6 districts (doc published May 2018)
- Table 13 Summary of turnover level 2010-17 – 6 districts (doc published May 2018)
- Table 14 Summary of turnover growth 2010-17 – 6 districts (doc published May 2018)
- CBR Database Methodology May 2018 (doc published May 2018)
- Methodology behind Cambridge Cluster Insights (updated Jan 2017)
- Camclustermap summary tables (Jan 2017)
- Distribution of 2015-16 growth by sectors (Jan 2017)
- Distribution of company size & growth by employee size classes (Jan 2017)
- Cambridge Growth update – 2016 data draw Jan 2017
- CBR Dataset sector classifications & counts Jan 2016
- SCALE-UPS – Cambridge’s fastest growing companies
- CORPORATE CAMBRIDGE (1) Knowledge Intensity (KI)
- CORPORATE CAMBRIDGE (2) Births and Deaths
- CORPORATE CAMBRIDGE (3) Employment growth
- CORPORATE CAMBRIDGE (4) KI birth death and growth
- CORPORATE CAMBRIDGE (5) Sectoral growth
Contact Us
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