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Management of Research and Development in Difficult Times
The world is changing rapidly around us. Some companies that once dominated global industry no longer exist, and newcomers arise every week. Companies that wish to survive and grow must change to fit new ways of working, and adapt to the immense differences that the growth in telecommunications and transport...
Tags: transport, R&D, industry, telecommunications, asset
White papers 2005-01-07
Biochips at the Heart of Healthcare
This paper provides information on the advances in Biomedicine. Combining techniques from the microchip industry with advances in biomedicine, British engineers have devised biological microchips biochips that can provide rapid and inexpensive diagnosis of a growing number of medical conditions. A UK-based company Randox Laboratories Ltd has pioneered the biochip...
Tags: Semiconductors, diagnosis, microchip, food, health care, technique, knowledge, financial, industry
White papers 2004-08-18
Digital Energy: Working Smart in the Oil and Gas Industry
In the past, the technologies used in well engineering have been relatively simple. The well was drilled and the hardware selected, installed down the hole and locked in place. The production then started but the well remained passive. It was essentially just down-hole plumbing - albeit on a grand scale....
Tags: oil, industry, asset, hardware
White papers 2004-05-11
The Challenges of Complex IT Projects
This paper seeks to understand what makes complex software and IT projects different from, and potentially more difficult than, other typical engineering projects, with a view to improving success rates. This paper is concerned with large scale IT projects with a significant and complex software component. For simplicity, the term...
Tags: Strategy, information technology, software
White papers 2004-04-01
Exciting Innovations for the Spinally Injured
Spinal injury can be devastating, resulting, as it often does, in some paralysis and loss of sensation. Engineering plays an important role in spinal cord injury rehabilitation. This paper surveys current research into the uses of functional electrical stimulation to improve the quality of life of spinally injured people. Touching...
Tags: survey
White papers 2004-02-23
The Pursuit of Trustworthy Information Systems in the New Millennium
Today and for the foreseeable future, new public policy issues are brought up by advances in communication and information technology. The Internet is much more than an apparatus for moving bits of information around the world - it generates whole new patterns of behavior and whole new possibilities for everyone....
Tags: information technology, Internet
White papers 2004-02-23
The Need for Speed
The team responsible for constructing the Channel Tunnel Rail Link is making engineering history with the 109 km line that is due to be completed in 2007. When the first section of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link opened for commercial services on 28 September 2003, passengers for the most part...
Tags: Team management, team
White papers 2004-02-20
High Street: The New Technological Battleground?
Modern technology employed by the retail industry already profiles customers for targeted advertising and records our every purchase. The latest advances include video screen modelling in changing rooms and the prospect of having every item in a basket scanned simultaneously at the checkout. Compared with the technical complexities of telecommunications...
Tags: industry, tax, telecommunications, advertisement, video
White papers 2004-02-20
Protecting The Railways: The Management of Safety in a Fragmented Industry
This paper considers how safety is managed in an industry that requires very high levels of technical and commercial integration but where management has been distributed between more than 100 different organizations. In comparison with other transport modes, rail is a highly integrated system. Unlike the situation in the road...
Tags: industry
White papers 2003-07-30
Fuelling the Future: A Consultation Document
This paper welcomes the opportunity to respond the Energy Futures Task Force's consultation document "Fuelling the Future". The response which follows is a collation of personal views expressed by Fellows with direct experience of the energy industry. Respondents felt that on the whole, the issues identified were the right ones....
Tags: benefit
White papers 2001-02-01

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International Risk Research Strategy & Funding Needed for Nanotech Safety.
WASHINGTON, March 27 /PRNewswire/ -- - Uncertainty Will Hamper Nanotechnology Commercialization Today, the Council for Science and Technology -- the British government's top-level advisory body on science and technology issues -- criticized the slow progress being made in providing needed...
Articles 2007-03-27
International Risk Research Strategy & Funding Needed for Nanotech Safety
To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS Contact: Sharon McCarter, of Woodrow Wilson International Centerfor Scholars, +1-202-691-4016, sharon.mccarter@wilsoncenter.org WASHINGTON, March 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the Councilfor Science and Technology -- the British government's top-leveladvisory body on science and technology issues -- criticized the slowprogress being made in providing needed support for focused researchinto...
Articles 2007-03-27
William Webb honoured by Royal Academy of Engineering.
M2 PRESSWIRE-18 July 2005-Ofcom: William Webb honoured by Royal Academy of EngineeringC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:18072005 Ofcom today announced that its senior technologist William Webb has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, an honour reserved for the...
Articles 2005-07-18
Gauge of success: the UK rail network is going through one of the most troubled periods in its history, but the man in charge of the infrastructure has a vision for its future development. (Business).
IN the week that Railtrack emerged from administration and was immediately dissolved to be transformed into its not-for-profit replacement--Network Rail, the company's chief executive gave UK engineers an opportunity to see the strategies now in place to deliver a successful network in the years to come....
Articles 2002-10-01
British biotech strategy fails.(biotechnical engineer fears government is missing the opportunity to make Britain a center for the biotech revolution)(Brief Article)
British governments have failed to develop a long-term strategy to support research and encourage biotechnology companies to invest in the UK, Professor Peter Dunnill told the Royal Academy of Engineering in London this month. The Department for Trade & Industry DTI is devoting minuscule...
Articles 2000-05-22
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