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Ideas Starting to Gel |
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Developed by French engineers, a new technology for extracting gelling agents from seaweed and other plant material offers significant savings of time, energy and labour. The closed system also offers more hygienic conditions, important for the production of food and pharmaceutical ingredients. |
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Corporation Tax - an Incentive to Innovate? |
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No one doubts that corporate tax law has an impact on the innovative behaviour of firms. But which of the options available to fiscal policy-makers stimulates innovation most effectively, and is it applicable in all cases? A forthcoming study promises to answer these key questions. |
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Innovation at the Service of Disability |
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Most Innovation projects are designed to help conventional 'for profit' enterprises. But in the Cognihelp and Sheltered Workshops projects, it is non-profit organisations that are transferring new technologies and methods, using innovation to open the world to people with disabilities. |
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A Meeting of Minds |
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A four-country consortium of university-industry networks has shown how to direct academic technology research to industrial users. The resulting mechanism allows researchers to see industrial applications of their work, while companies benefit from research beyond the scope of their own expertise. |
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Sticking up for Anodisation |
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Seven SMEs which make or install aluminium windows and doors used a CRAFT project to solve a tricky problem - how to deal with a form of corrosion that does expensive damage to buildings. |
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A Breath of Fresh Air |
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Continuous determination of a wide range of toxic air pollutants is now possible using a new air sampling procedure. The automatic analyser based on this procedure can be used in industrial, domestic or other environments. It is mobile, self-contained and can operate unattended for up to a week. |
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May 2000 
