US dominates world patents
The National Science Foundation report also discovered that the US, Russia and Japan have the lowest number of patents awarded to foreign inventors. In all the other countries surveyed, over two-third...
Small companies get the EU research bug
According to the report, over 80% of the SMEs that received an award during 1995-97 had never taken part in an EU project before, and some 8000 companies had never been involved in any sort of public ...
From technology to jobs
Yet technology is now associated with unemployment and social distress in many countries, as the OECD notes. “However, technology per se is not the culprit, ” the report continues. “...
Little ventured for physics
Physics-based companies in the UK can find it difficult to raise venture capital. Michael Kenward finds out why
The myth of high-tech job creation
The report suggests that governments should move more university researchers onto short-term contracts to encourage mobility between academia and industry. It also recommends that scientists should re...
Europe’s aerospace firms stick to their guns
Officials from all three countries are concerned at the rapid spate of mergers in the US defence and aerospace industry, and hope that a European equivalent can be created to compete against the Ameri...
Why are American workers more productive than British and German workers?
Germany is thought to have some of the most highly trained and productive workers in the world. However, new data from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) in London show tha...
European defence companies asked to merge
In an effort to compete against US defence companies, the UK, French and German governments have called on European defence companies to merge into a single company
New sites for Oxford Instruments
Oxford Instruments opened two new buildings last month
Euro defence giant born
Alcatel Alsthom and Dassault have become strategic partners in Thomson CSF
