issue 10 spring 07
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Evolution of corporate R&D is 'double whammy' for mid-sized firms

Commission backs European Research Area

Complex industry-academia negotiations spur US initiative

Obituary - Alexander King, CMG CBE

Quality of life angle to Millennium Technology Prize

US companies focus research spending on collaborations that can enable new businesses
Country profile

Denmark
View from Europe

If Europeans cannot see that talented people will live where they can work as successfully as possible, none of the institutional reforms aimed at creating a knowledge economy here will matter. The best people will go elsewhere. It's that simple.

View from a start-up

It often takes an external actor to co-ordinate the kind of organisational changes that enable innovation in large companies

Feature: Fostering creativity

Creativity is vital to discovery in research, and to the development effort that turns ideas into money through innovation. If it's so important, what can you do to nurture and sustain it in your organisation?
Feature: Benchmarking

A meeting on measuring R&D processes delivered benchmark results that managers can use to assess their organisations. It also highlighted some emerging issues whose novelty, forward-looking nature or complexity means they are not, as yet, amenable to rigorous analysis.
Feature: The new geography of science

How is the geography of science changing? The Demos thinktank spent 18 months interviewing more than 400 industrialists, academics and policy makers in China, India and South Korea, to understand how R&D will evolve.
A day in the life of

Michael Gahagan, manager, Hazelwood Applied Sciences, Lubrizol
Intellectual property
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Quality of life angle to Millennium Technology Prize

Finland is looking for nominations for next year's €1m Millennium Technology Prize. The bi-annual prize was won by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, in 2004, and by Professor Shuji Nakamura, inventor of blue LEDs, in 2006.

Nominations for the prize, given by a consortium of Finnish public and private interests, run until 1 October 2007.

The world's largest technology prize is awarded for an innovation that improves the quality of human life and encourages sustainable development. The 2008 award will publicise the finalists and details of their inventions in April 2008. The winner will be announced at a ceremony in Helsinki on 11 June 2008.

Candidates for the Millennium Technology Prize can work in any technological field anywhere in the world. Nominations can be submitted by individuals or groups, working at academies, universities, research institutions or companies.

The Millennium Technology Prize aims to steer technological progress in a humane direction by rewarding sustainable innovations that improve quality of life.

doi: eiq-2007-010-0005
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