Scottish jobs spring
A new strategy bringing academics and industrialists together to commercialise Scottish research in science and technology could create at least another 11,000 jobs over the next ten years. This...
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If we're different, it's for the same reason
In our series on the Big Science Questions, Aisling Irwin looks at the evidence for differences between the sexes beyond the basic mechanics of reproduction. "Why can't a woman be more like a man?"...
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Breaths of fresh air
As Oxford's latest spin-off seals a deal to exploit asthma research, Kam Patel looks at what business incubation units can do Asthma researchers at Oxford University have entered a deal with...
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The frosty welcome is part of the package
A group of glaciologists has escaped the British weather for somewhere... colder. In the fourth article on what researchers do in the summer, Bryn Hubbard reports from the Arctic island of...
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Year of the dragon
Welsh centres of expertise are linking research innovators with businesses. Iola Smith reports on an initiative that is already attracting interest from abroad Europe lags behind the US and Japan in...
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Commissioner Philippe Busquin welcomes Prime Ministers Blair and Kok's call for increased business investment in R&D
Brussels, 21 February 2002 In a letter to José Maria Aznar, President of the European Council, Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Wim Kok have called for determined action by the EU and its Member States...
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Avoid logging on to despair
A sceptical Dorothy Zinberg faces the dark side of internet euphoria and urges a little cyber restraint. Long before the Nasdaq's unexpected 50 per cent plunge almost a year ago, I had begun to...
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Advice for the age of e-verything
Global Electronic Commerce - e-Enterprise - The Business of e-Commerce
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Access: an unhealthy obsession
Instead of seizing lifelong learning and developing a stimulating vision for an inclusive, interactive yet excellent higher education system, we seem to be driving down a narrow road obsessed with...
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Aberystywth AUT censures management
A MEETING of the Aberystwyth branch of the Association of University Teachers has passed a motion of no confidence in the university's staff management strategy. It follows recent moves to axe up to...
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Report opposed by academics
A group of 1,400 Canadian academics have put their name to a letter that urges prime minister Jean Chretien to reject a report on university commercialisation. The Canadian Association of University...
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Commission Communication: Civil protection - Progress made in implementing the programme for preparedness for possible emergencies
Brussels, 14 June 2002 COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL AND THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Civil protection - Progress made in implementing the programme for preparedness for possible...
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Elite logs out of e-university
A complete rethink of the government's proposed e-university risks repeating the problems of the University for Industry. Plans for an elite core of institutions to lead the project - unveiled as...
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Isn't it about time Labour abolished the TECs?
Unaccountable, overburdened, outdated -TECs have had their day, writes Julian Gravatt Training and enterprise councils are an idea whose time has gone, and they should be abolished. An innovation of...
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Henry V leads businessmen unto the breach
A CEO in search of excellence should avoid the insipid management books in airport bookstores and turn to Shakespeare - so Richard Olivier believes. Huw Richards reports. " We few, we happy few, we...