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
New horizons for R&D
The globalization of industrial research and development is now a fact of life. R&D was once a corporate function, performed on a single site near a company’s headquarters. But now the incre...
