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  1. Japan gets patent fund

    Waseda University in Tokyo has joined with Daiwa Securities to create Japan's first fund for patenting and marketing university research, writes John Greenlees in Japan. The Waseda-Daiwa Pilot Fund...

  2. EPSRC conference

    The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council will be holding a conference on postgraduate research in electronics, photonics and related fields at the University of Manchester Institute of...

  3. UK lobby seizes Euro initiative

    For the first time in negotiations over Euro-research there is an articulate voice speaking for those most actively involved - the researchers themselves. Researchers funded through the EU's Marie...

  4. Weapons disposal launches into profit

    A submarine rocket launch in Russia could point the way to a new means of getting rid of Cold war weaponry that brings in a profit instead of costing money. Scientists from the Technical University...

  5. Board invites arts bid for cash

    GRANTS of up to Pounds 500,000 will be given to research projects by the new Arts and Humanities Research Board if plans are approved in the autumn. Researchers will be able to ask for a maximum...

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  6. Patronage under fire

    A CAMBRIDGE University don imprisoned for knowingly distributing HIV-infected blood in the 1993 French blood and Aids scandal was again at the centre of a controversy this week as it emerged that the...

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  7. Manchester to become computer superpower

    A Pounds 26-million supercomputer service funded and managed under a private finance initiative will go to Manchester University. The machine will be based on Silicon Graphics' latest T3E-1200E...

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  8. Asia crisis hits student subsidy

    THE FINANCIAL crisis in Asia is likely to force New Zealand to renege on a plan to boost university and polytechnic spending by $NZ103 million (Pounds 33 million). Prime minister Jenny Shipley said a...

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  9. First Impressions

    This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is taken from a colourful tale of Washington intrigue written by an unidentified source...

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