Cambridge-MIT Institute
The Cambridge-MIT Institute or CMI, is the result of a partnership between the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.It was proposed by British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown in the summer of 1998, who wanted to bring the entrepreneurial spirit of MIT to British universities. Cambridge University was chosen as MIT's partner because of its strong record in science/engineering and the abundance of high-technology firms located in the Cambridge area (Silicon Fen).
The alliance involves undergraduate student exchanges, as well as collaborative work on research.