In 2025, the E-Lab ran the third edition of our Entrepreneurship Essay Competition. The purpose of the competition is to encourage UK-based school students to pursue entrepreneurial aspirations and understand better how to launch an enterprise. The students choose between three essay questions which reflects the importance of entrepreneurism and the challenges that businesses face. This week, we share the essay of one of our runners up, Rahul Thotakura from King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford, which explores the reasons teambuilding is essential to start up success.

The King’s E-Lab Social Venture Residential reinforces a fundamental insight: meaningful progress in entrepreneurship, particularly social entrepreneurship, rarely occurs in isolation. Rather, it emerges through deliberate engagement, critical exchange, and exposure to diverse ways of thinking. In this week’s blog, read this and other learnings from Mendos Fidelis’s as he reflects on the critical tools of entrepreneurial thinking and the ethical responsibility of entrepreneurs.

On the 28th of November 2025, the E-Lab hosted the Digital Energy Grid Summit in partnership with Beckn Labs‍, Networks for Humanity, and the Innovation Hub for Prosperity. Convening investors, builders, regulators, and energy communities, the summit was not just a conference but a catalyst for commercial collaboration, designed to turn shared vision into coordinated action. In this week’s blog, read reflections from the organising team on insights, outcomes and next steps.

On the 14th of January 2026, as a part of the Social Venture Residential, the E-Lab hosted Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, FSI, the Honourable Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. In this week’s blog, read moderator Benedetta Asher’s insights on creating sustainable and resilient innovation; including how we need to embed it deliberately, design complementary and capable support organisations, and champion leadership that invests in shared understanding and collective ownership.

In 2025, the E-Lab ran the third edition of our Entrepreneurship Essay Competition. The purpose of the competition is to encourage UK-based school students to pursue entrepreneurial aspirations and understand better how to launch an enterprise. The students choose between three essay questions which reflects the importance of entrepreneurism and the challenges that businesses face. This week, we share the essay of one of our runners up, Jessica Smart from Harlington Upper School, which explores the different challenges for start ups (through the world of sunscreen!).

The Impact Revolution reimagines the current economic order. In place of careless capitalism, a system of impact marries profit and purpose to realise humanity’s potential to create a positive social and environmental future for all. On the 22^nd of January, the E-Lab hosted Sir Ronald Cohen, pioneering social innovator and father of both private equity and social investment to share the insights from his latest book, Impact: Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change. In this week’s blog, read about the makings of the Impact Revolution, the challenges it faces, and the possible reasons to retain some optimism in the face of ongoing social and environmental threats.

In the middle of January, the E-Lab hosted its 2026 Social Venture Residential Programme in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Programme and the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation. Designed to support students of all disciplines in developing sustainable and ethical projects with a positive social and environmental impact, the SVR aims to equip those with a passion for change with key entrepreneurial skills. In this week’s blog, read Mphil student Damilola Oyeyemi’s reflections on the residential and on the mindset shifts it created for her.

After winning the Simmons & Simmons challenge at the E-Lab LLMxLaw Hackathon 2.0, the Jurispark team visited the firm's London office in December 2025 to demo their AI-powered legal research platform. In this week’s blog read about what they learned about bridging academic innovation and legal practice and about the value of practical insights.

On the 29 November 2025, Lord Mervyn King delivered the annual Provost’s Lecture at King’s College, Cambridge during the 1441 Foundation Dinner. To celebrate the 100th piece for our blog series, we’re delighted to share Lord King’s words from the evening on the theme of uncertainty and serendipity in contemporary times.

From June 19th to June 22nd 2025, the King’s E-Lab hosted its second annual Hackathon with Hack the Law in partnership with Stanford’s CODEX. The weekend brought together over 150 students from 14 countries representing 43 universities and produced exciting collaborations and innovative solutions to legal challenges set out by our sponsors. In this week’s blog, hear from VibeLegal on their experience as a fully ‘non-tech’ team in a hackathon competition.

On the 30^th of October 2025, the E-Lab hosted HealthTech founder, CEO Coach, and Chairman Kevin McDonnell for a discussion on key lessons for HealthTech startups. HealthTech sounds like the perfect career path for the ambitious entrepreneur – a chance to improve lives and build a successful business. But most founders quickly learn: selling into the NHS is nothing like traditional startups. In this week’s blog, read Coco Newtons’s reflections from her conversation with Kevin about uncomfortable truths in NHS entrepreneurship, how founders should re-design their strategies to adapt to these realities, and what we can hope for when we learn to build trust.

Each September, the E-Lab hosts a residential week as a part of its core residential programme. This year, we welcomed 62 students from across 12 Cambridge Colleges keen to learn how to take their innovative ideas forward. Through workshops, lectures and socials students learnt everything from the basics of finance, marketing and IP to how to creatively communicate their proposals and build meaningful stakeholder maps. In this week’s blog, read PhD student Maryam Bham’s reflections on the women who inspire her understanding of entrepreneurship and on how the week left her with a sharpened mindset and a renewed sense of purpose to build something meaningful.

When Alan Turing proposed the imitation game in 1950 the question, ‘can machines think?’ provocatively probed the boundaries of artificial intelligence. To mark the 75th anniversary of Turing’s Turing Test, the E-Lab and the Centre for the Future of Intelligence hosted a two-day conference at King’s College, Cambridge to ask a deceptively simple question: what should we test now? In this week’s blog, read Part Two of our write up from the conference from PhD students Bernardo Villegas Moreno, Drew Calcagno and Noah Broestl.

In 1950, Sir Alan Turing’s seminal paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” probed the question ‘Can machines think?’ and introduced the concept of what is now known as the Turing test to the world. Today, the question of what computers can do – now, next year, or in 5 years or 20 – has become an urgent one. To mark the 75th anniversary of Turing’s remarkable publication, to honour his foundational part in the establishment of the field of artificial intelligence, and to press the questions of AI’s problems and possibilities, the King’s E-Lab and the Centre for the Future of Intelligence hosted a two-day conference at King’s College, Cambridge. In this week’s blog, read Part One of our write up from the conference from PhD student and E-Lab member Jacob Forward as he reflects on Day One.