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• Award for company that cuts the gases

  - 2008-07-04

  Byline: By HENRYK ZIENTEK Business Reporter A COLNE Valley firm has won an award for its commitment to the environment. Green Building Store received a major commendation in the Environmental Leadership Awards run by the Business Commitment to the Environment organisation. The company was recognised for its...

  Tags: Construction, environment, U.K., University of Cambridge

• Language in the British Isles. David Britain, editor. Cambridge University Press

  - 2008-06-22

  Language in the British Isles. David Britain, editor. Cambridge University Press. 50.00. xiii+508 pages. ISBN 978-0-521-79488-6. This collection of twenty-five essays is in effect a replacement of Peter Trudgill's Language in the British Isles first published in 1984. This new collection takes into account the continuing immigration into the UK,...

  Tags: education, essay, U.K., University of Cambridge

• University-Industry Interactions: the Case of the UK Biotech Industry

  - 2006-12-01

  ABSTRACT This paper's focus is on both the geography of entrepreneurship and on industry-collaborative links internationally, nationally and at the local level in the UK biotech industry, the world's second largest biotech industry. The paper reports on a pilot survey of the UK biotech industry. The survey has two goals:...

  Tags: Biotechnology, Cohen, innovation, R&D, survey, technology, U.K., University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• England's large farms ready to expand.(survey of farmers)

  - 2006-06-02

  Almost 40% of England's larger cereal farm businesses are poised to expand following the introduction of decoupling--the separation of farm subsidies from production, according to a survey of farmers' intentions published by Cambridge University this week. Not content with increasing cereal and other combinable...

  Tags: cereal, England, MARKETING, survey, U.K., University of Cambridge

• Perovskite film provides exceptional cooling property.(COATINGS)

  - 2006-05-01

  Thin films made from lead zirconate titanate PZT could lead to a new type of refrigeration, according to recent research work carried out by scientists in the UK. Lead researcher Dr Alex Mischenko, of the University of Cambridge, says that the films--which cool when...

  Tags: Biotechnology, researcher, scientist, U.K., University of Cambridge

• Books received

  - 2006-03-01

  ACEMOGLU, DARON, and JAMES A. ROBINSON. Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 416. Cloth $35.00. ACOCELLA, NICOLA. Economic Policy in the Age of Globalisation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 509. Cloth $90.00, paper $43.00. AGHION, PHILIPPE, and RACHEL GRIFFITH. Competition...

  Tags: Books, Cambridge, FINANCE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sterling, U.K., University of Cambridge

• Wax wins top UK outsourcing award.

  - 2005-09-26

  M2 PRESSWIRE-26 September 2005-WAX info: Wax wins top UK outsourcing awardC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:26092005 Cambridge based Wax info Ltd., one of the country's leading developers of secure distributed content management software, has won the UK's top award for the use...

  Tags: Cambridge, Outsourcing, PC, SMB/SME, U.K., University of Cambridge

• The very order of things: Rousseau's tutorial republicanism *.

  - 2005-04-01

  Rousseau's political theory has seemed to many to contemplate the radical transformation of human character through invasive governmental practices. But a classical republican reading of his general concern with moeurs and his developed conception of statecraft shows why he called for regulating or redirecting psychic dispositions, not destroying and then...

  Tags: Cambridge, conception, disposition, Geneva, legislator, liberty, Plato, Republic, Republican, theory, U.K., University of Cambridge

• Books received

  - 2005-03-01

  AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK. Africa in the Global Trading System: African Development Report 2004. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 337. Paper $29.95. ALESINA, ALBERTO, and EDWARD L. GLAESER. Fighting Poverty in the U.S. and Europe: A World of Difference. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 264. Cloth...

  Tags: Books, Cambridge, FINANCE, Globalization, M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Richard, Strategy, U.K., University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• Cambridge-MIT Institute launches initiative to enhance the future of communications.

  - 2004-06-15

  M2 PRESSWIRE-15 June 2004-MIT: Cambridge-MIT Institute launches initiative to enhance the future of communicationsC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06152004 "The spreadsheet came from an apartment in Massachusetts, the Ethernet came from a copier company, Napster came from a garage, and E-Bay...

  Tags: CMI, computer, innovation, Leadership, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PRODUCTIVITY, Strategy, U.K., University of Cambridge