Legal lift for French patents
Celia Hampton looks at Jospin's liberal reform of public sector innovation Many academics feel uneasy about commercialising their research. In France their reservations are backed up by the law. But...
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The thriving drug counter culture
Entrepreneurs with a science background are taking the biotechnology business by storm, reports Kam Patel More than a quarter of the companies responsible for the European biotechnology industry's "...
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The MIT men who make a killing
Mike Cassidy retired for a year when his telephone/computer software made him millions, but now he is back in business. Julia Hinde reports Send a parcel by Federal Express and you can check its...
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Business plan competition
There have been more than 100 entries to the UK's first business plan competition. Run jointly by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the Medical Research Council, the...
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It's cheap to talk
A Pounds 9 million contract to bring telephones to rural Africa has put two British university academics firmly on the map. Rural Radio Systems, a company established five years ago by Southampton...
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Shoppers are fickle about loyalty cards
Watch out for that seductive plastic chain stores are so keen to hand out. They really do make you spend more, according to research at the University of Stirling. Susan Hart, now at Strathclyde...
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Costume colour
(Photograph) - A Polish student from Krakow now studying at Loughborough University wears her regional dress for the university's International Day Photograph by Steve Hill
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Academics chair two Foresight panels
Panel chairs for the second round of Foresight - an exercise to encourage industry, academia and government to identify research needs and market opportunities and threats for the future - were...
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Sources for research funds
Each week this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council www.epsrc.ac.uk...
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Cambridge faces fine for missing radioactive stock
Cambridge University is being prosecuted for the loss of a radioactive package. It could face an unlimited fine if found guilty. The Health and Safety Executive and the Environment Agency confirmed...
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Fees for foreigners spiral
Student leaders have warned that some universities are in danger of pricing themselves out of the overseas higher education market, as new figures reveal a yawning gap in the cost of tuition. The...
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Admin system overshoots budget by millions
A computerised administration and financial management system for Denmark's higher educational sector is so overdue that few institutions want it - but three universities need the system because...
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French course puts accent on e-business partnerships
A business school in France's alpine city of Grenoble has received hundreds of enquiries about a masters course in electronic business that begins in the 1999-2000 academic year. The one-year course...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES ... George Walden suggested that tuition fees should rise above Pounds 1,000 so academics can be paid more Max Roberts Department of psychology University of Essex Students...
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Global group seeks seven members
The 16 large research-intensive universities that form Universitas 21 are planning to expand membership. At its annual meeting in Montreal, U21 organisers said they would like to add seven members,...