EU-funded project launches driverless taxis
Brussels, 18 January 2002 An innovative type of driverless taxi which runs on tracks, developed under the EU-funded project EDICT (evaluation and demonstration of innovative city transport), was...
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Commission launches High Level Group on Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
Brussels, 10 October 2002 A new High Level Group advising on Hydrogen and Fuel Cells (HLG) was launched today in Brussels by European Commission President Romano Prodi, Commission Vice President,...
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Entrepreneurs put on research cap
Specialist posts, sabbaticals and secondments for academics and captains of industry and staff training have emerged as Scottish university strategies to exploit the commercial potential of research...
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On the trail of hunters who took to the land
Pinpointing when hunter-gatherers became farmers calls for clever science and detective work. Geoff Watts met sleuths piecing together the evidence. The Neolithic revolution may not be as familiar as...
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What works in the work place?
Theory of Employment Systems
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£120m boost for research
Scottish higher education has won £120 million in a series of funding boosts for research and commercialisation. Scotland's share of the Science Research Infrastructure Fund is £45 million, but the...
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A little lost with A to Z
The Penguin Archaeology Guide
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When patients can't afford the drugs, but drug companies can't cut their prices, who should foot the bill?
 "The pharmaceuticals world, once I entered it, got me by the throat and wouldn't let me go. It had everything: the hopes and dreams we have of it; its vast, partly realised potential for good; and...
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Are we taking enough care of the student body?
With the prevention of obesity high on the government's agenda, Matthew Baker and Luqman Hayes ask what campuses can do to turn students on to healthy eating and sport. It can't be for nothing that...
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Commission presents roadmap to increase investment in research
Brussels, 12 September 2002 The Commission yesterday presented its strategy to respond to the March 2002 Barcelona European Council's call to raise research spending to 3% of EU average Gross...
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Kumar Bhattacharyya
The success of Kumar Bhattacharyya's Warwick Manufacturing Group has been the envy of universities across the country. Started by Professor Bhattacharyya 20 years ago, with himself as the only...
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Scots' system is bad for business
Three leading players in commercialising academic research have told an influential Scottish parliamentary committee that existing methods for encouraging commercialisation are inadequate. Sir David...
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Busquin warns that action is needed to address the 'European paradox'
Brussels, 20 February 2002 Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin has called for moves to counteract what he describes as the 'reversal of the European paradox,' the phenomenon of Europe's failure to...
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Is the masterplan coming unstuck?
UK business appears to have an insatiable appetite for employees brandishing MBAs, but when the going gets tough it might find that such qualifications really aren't worth the paper they are written...
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Spare a thought for your toaster
Designing the 21st Century