Over the last few months at the E-Lab, we’ve hosted several conversations about the role of Artificial Intelligence in venture creation and development with industry experts, academics, and founders. In this week’s blog, read from the brilliant Sheelpa Patel about the key themes, insights, and questions that threaded through each discussion which should inform our understanding of entrepreneurship and human judgement in the era of AI.

Over the summer, our Laidlaw Scholars took on their 6-week placements for the Leadership in Action (LiA) component of the Laidlaw Leadership and Research Programme. Working with a diverse range of local organisations across Cambridge, the scholars spent the time learning what ethical leadership looks like in practice. In this week’s blog, read from Rhiana Brown on her time with Greater Cambridge Impact (GCI) and how she learnt to define impact and build key leadership skills.

Over the summer, our Laidlaw Scholars took on their 6-week placements for the Leadership in Action (LiA) component of the Laidlaw Leadership and Research Programme. Working with a diverse range of local organisations across Cambridge, the scholars spent the time learning what ethical leadership looks like in practice. In this week’s blog, read from Eleanor Barton on her time with It Takes of City and their collaborative work to make homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring.

In 2025/2026, EFG International funded scholarships for a group of talented King’s postgraduate students to give them the opportunity to develop their skills as innovators, entrepreneurs, and leaders in order to thrive in a changing business world. In this week’s blog, read from these six EFG Scholars and E-Lab members as they share their thoughts and aspirations with the EFG team.

From the 13th to 15th of November, two of our Laidlaw Scholars will take part in the Laidlaw Leadership and Research Annual Conference in New York City. Under this year’s theme of ‘Ambition: Passion, Progress, and Possibility in a Changing World’, students will share their leadership and research journeys, connect with a global network of scholars, and hear from inspiring leaders from across the world. In this week’s blog, Sonny Hastie shares his perspective on how young leaders should understand ambition based on his work at Cambridge United Foundation over the summer.

From the 13th to 15th of November, two of our Laidlaw Scholars will take part in the Laidlaw Leadership and Research Annual Conference in New York City. Under this year’s theme of ‘Ambition: Passion, Progress, and Possibility in a Changing World’, students will share their leadership and research journeys, connect with a global network of scholars, and hear from inspiring leaders from across the world. In this week’s blog, read from one of the two selected scholars, Mia Strickland, on what she has learnt about ambition and leadership over her last year on the programme.

In 2026, The Surpluss was selected as one of five global start-ups to address the World Economic Forum (WEF) on AI in circular value chains, intelligent infrastructure, and resource security. Founded by Rana Hajirasouli and a part of the inaugural SPARK 1.0 Cohort at the King’s E-Lab, The Surpluss is designed to save millions of kilograms of waste from landfill. In this week’s blog, hear from Rana on how the logic of circularity which sits at the heart of the company and why her solution is crucial today.

We often associate entrepreneurship with Silicon Valley boardrooms, but what happens when the boardroom is a war zone? In Ukraine, civic technology isn't just software, it's a lifeline. From the agile pivot of the "city as a service" platform MISTO to the innovative offline features of the Kyiv Digital app, Ukrainian technologists and municipal actors are redefining digital governance under crisis. In this week’s blog, read from student Nia Elizabeth van der Velden as she explores how Ukrainians have transformed crisis management into a digital fortress, demonstrating that the true entrepreneurial mindset is about adaptability, people-centricity, and civic responsibility.

Over the past few months, our brilliant Mia Fulford has developed and run the Dialogues for Post-Conflict Futures series, an initiative which convenes those with lived experience to understand how locally driven social innovation can shape more adaptive, context-sensitive, and sustainable pathways to recovery. In this week’s blog, read Mia’s argument for why conversations about innovation in complex and often deeply contested contexts cannot be reduced to technical expertise alone but must continue to centre questions of competing histories, values, and understandings of what it means to live together. Questions that only the humanities are well positioned to answer.

In the world of innovation today, it is difficult to confront considerations of AI. So how should emerging entrepreneurs be thinking about AI as a tool for performance without increasing the cacophony of noise and inputs that amount to everyday life? In this week’s blog, Elle Whitelegg argues that resilience for entrepreneurs in the age of AI is about the ability to stay anchored to a longer-term goal while operating in a faster-moving environment.

A new wave of innovation is redefining women’s health - and with it, one of medicine’s most overlooked opportunities. In this week’s blog read this second part of Rewriting the Future of Women’s Health from MPhil student Anastasiya Rozenbaum, Founding Scientist at OvartiX Kyra Ungerleider and Co-Founder of Clair Jenny Duan as they outline how breakthrough advances, from Cambridge’s biotechnology ecosystem to Silicon Valley’s health-tech frontier, are transforming the field.

Healthcare start-ups often encounter an implicit message: to work with the NHS, you must implement full medical-grade compliance from the outset. This complexity creates friction, reduces the diversity of innovation, and disengages aspiring innovators. While the NHS must be cautious, the current system results not in safer innovation, but stalled innovation. In this week’s blog, read our very own James Beattie’s arguments for why institutional clarity in public healthcare is essential to widen participation, support innovators, and ultimately strengthen the NHS.

The month of March, marked by International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, offers an opportunity to not only celebrate women’s achievements but also to reflect on innovation in women’s health, an area emerging as one of the most important frontiers in modern healthcare. Here we find both significant challenges to address and exciting momentum to champion. In this week’s blog, read this first part of a two part series about why and how we must reshape the future of women’s health from Mphil student Anastasiya Rozenbaum and Founding Scientist at OvartiX Kyra Ungerleider.

In one week, the E-Lab will host the second LLM x Law Hackathon in partnership with Stanford’s CodeX and the Cambridge Judge Business School. Following the inaugural edition in 2024, the hackathon aims to bring teams together to experiment and solve problems rapidly by developing prototypes that challenge conventional approaches and expand technological boundaries. An undoubtedly thrilling environment, the event also prompts deeper reflection on the potential outcomes of enacting faster paced technological solutions. In this week’s blog, practicing advocate and Visiting Scholar in AI Governance at Downing College, Demetrius Floudas addresses an evident and serious gap in thinking – who is left to judge the cases our newly designed AI taskforce will soon exponentially create?