News in brief - 30 October 2014
USS pensionsTobacco investments under attackThe Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) should reconsider its investments in companies that sell tobacco, arms and fossil fuels, a new campaign says....
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Invitation to European industry for the ISD-2003
Paris, 21 Nov 2003 The third edition of the Industry Space Days (ISD) will take place at ESTEC, Noordwijk in the Netherlands November 24-26, 2003. It is a major forum to generate tomorrow business...
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Invitation to European industry for the ISD-2003
Paris, 21 Nov 2003 The third edition of the Industry Space Days (ISD) will take place at ESTEC, Noordwijk in the Netherlands November 24-26, 2003. It is a major forum to generate tomorrow business...
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Breaking the industrial mould
INFORMATION AND ORGANISATION: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THE THEORY OF THE FIRM. By Mark Casson. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 314pp, Pounds 40.00. - ISBN 0 19 829232 5. This is an ambitious book. Mark Casson's...
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Innovative collaboration
The engineering skills shortage debate has been raised again as the result of a recent report – Excellence in Postgraduate Education: Manufacturing, Materials and Design – published by Cranfield...
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Making Marie Curie: Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information, by Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
Robyn Arianrhod welcomes an unsentimental study of the first woman to win a Nobel prize
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Europabio praises Commission biotech strategy
Brussels, 30 January 2002 Europabio, the European association for bioindustries, has welcomed the announcement of a new European Commission biotechnology policy which aims to help make Europe the...
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Catapult centres ‘should number 30 by 2030’
The government should double the annual budget of its innovation agency to £1 billion so it can establish more “Catapult” centres, a new report says
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Managing industrial property rights in biotechnology
Brussels, 20 Nov 2003 A seminar on industrial property rights in biotechnology will take place from 19 to 23 January in Nice, France. The event is aimed at persons seeking to use intellectual...
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Managing industrial property rights in biotechnology
Brussels, 20 Nov 2003 A seminar on industrial property rights in biotechnology will take place from 19 to 23 January in Nice, France. The event is aimed at persons seeking to use intellectual...
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Mock job applications: should they be part of a university degree?
An academic and a graduate give their views on embedding employability into higher education courses
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Campus close-up: Queen Margaret University
A Scottish institution aims to tackle obesity with products developed in a new food innovation centre
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Marking boycott could be suspended next week
UCU to consult on halting action to allow more talks, provided academics’ pay is not docked
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Endocrine disruption, an EU strategy in full swing
Brussels, 03 Sep 2003 As evidence came to light of endocrinal changes in mammals and increased testicular cancer and lower male sperm counts, policy-makers knew action was needed. The EU's new...
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Nine ideas to bridge industry-academia gap
Brussels, 10 Oct 2006 The Science l Business news service has launched a nine-point innovation manifesto intended to cut to the heart of where Europe is going wrong with its innovation efforts. It...