Great opportunities for entrepreneurs at ILA
Paris, 10 May 2004 At this year's ILA in Berlin several events are of interest to entrepreneurs and start-up companies. The Galileo Masters competition, the NAVOBS project and ESINET target small and...
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US Patent Office Grants PUBPAT Request to Reexamine Cotransformation Patent
New York, 10 May 2004 The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued an Order granting the Public Patent Foundation's Request for Reexamination of a key patent on cotransformation, a...
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Cambridge dons fight for patent earnings Academics at Cambridge University are in revolt over plans to end their right to take home profits from their discoveries and inventions. Dons are furious at...
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REWERSE - establishing European leadership in reasoning for the Web
Brussels, 07 May 2004 Today, the Internet provides users with a huge amount of searchable information, as well as interactive services and applications that, based on our input, allow us to book a...
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New IST Support Action to build partnerships between research and standards in FP6
Brussels, 07 May 2004 Global markets confront research and development with new challenges in introducing new technologies, often reflected at a later stage in standardisation activities. A new...
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UK researchers find oceans are polluted with plastic
Brussels, 07 May 2004 A team of UK researchers has carried out the first ever survey of the presence of plastic fragments in oceans, and has found widespread evidence of this new form of marine...
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Germany to create more apprenticeships in nanotechnology and biotechnology
Brussels, 07 May 2004 German Minister for Education and Research, Edelgard Bulmahn, has launched her country's 'apprenticeship offensive 2004', saying that she sees particular potential for...
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FP5 ADVISOR project to hold workshop on river basin governance
Brussels, 07 May 2004 The Fifth Framework Programme (FP5) project ADVISOR (integrated evaluation for sustainable river basin governance) will host a workshop in Seville, Spain, on 5 July. The project...
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When microelectronics and micromechanics meet
Brussels, 07 May 2004 A European technology brokerage event, organised by the Innovation Relay Centre for Great Eastern France, in close collaboration with the IRC nano and micro thematic groups...
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IRC organises 'next business generation' conference
Brussels, 07 May 2004 The German-Swiss Innovation Relay Centre (IRC), Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum, will hold an international conference on the next business generation in Stuttgart, Germany, on 17 and...
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Deep faults and disrupted crater at Acheron Fossae
Paris, 07 May 2004 Images These images were taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express of the Acheron Fossae region, an area of intensive tectonic (continental '...
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EPO Board of Appeals Decisions on "New DNA Molecules" (links)
Munich, 07 May 2004 Case G 0002/02 "New DNA molecules" "A DNA molecule for expression of bile salt-stimulated lipase (BSSL)" Decision Keywords International applications - priorities from India...
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Society 'loses the plot' over garden
A plan to create a psychological garden at next year's Chelsea Flower Show has sown seeds of discontent within the psychology profession's national body. The British Psychological Society's project,...
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In the news: Paul Drayson
The founder of one of the most successful university spinoff companies who donated £100,000 to the Labour Party and found himself at the centre of a row over a government contract has been appointed...
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People: Peers
The list of new working peers that emerged last weekend included several names linked to higher education. Anthony Giddens , former director of the London School of Economics, will sit on the Labour...