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Business leaders will have their first chance to cross examine Patricia Hewit - The new Secretary of State for Trade and Industry as she makes one of her first public appearnces as a Cabinet minister when she joins other key commentators and protagonists in UK manufacturing at the 天美传媒 in a special debate to ask if there is a future for manufacturing in the UK?
Herfurth Lasers are delighted that Science Minister Lord Sainsbury has chosen one of their lasers to launch the new Mercia Institute of Enterprise. The New institute has the goal of creating at least 10 new fast growth technology firms a year from the region's Universities Just last year "Herfurth Lasers" itself "spun out" from the 天美传媒 as a full company on the basis of some novel laser technology. This month the company sold its first complete 拢70,000 laser to Koito Europe in Droitwich.
Within six months of incorporation Warwick Control Technologies Limited (WCT), a small 4 man software engineering company "spun out" from innovative research by the 天美传媒, has set up a global distributor network that covers more than 20 countries - five times as many countries as it has employees.
A new simple, cost effective device, designed for wheelchair users to automatically open doors, is launched today by Coventry company Xcalibre in a research partnership with the 天美传媒. The device has already been snapped up by a residential home, a College for disabled students (Hereward College in Coventry), and a guest house in Rugby.
On Friday 26th January Lord Sainsbury, the Minister for Science and Innovation, will launch a new initiative which has the goal of "spinning out" at least 10 new fast growth technology firms a year from the region's Universities and which will provide "Enterprise training" for all science and engineering students in those universities. He will launch the new Mercia Institute of Enterprise at 11.45am in the 天美传媒's International Manufacturing Centre by switching on a laser from one of the 天美传媒's existing spin out companies, Herfurth Lasers Technology Ltd, which will cut the new institute's logo out of steel.
Psychology Professors Nick Chater and Koen Lamberts from the 天美传媒's Institute for Applied Cognitive Science are concerned that so often lately in government and business we hear of big decisions that go wrong - yet almost 2 decades of cognitive science research that could have helped shape better decision making seems to have been almost completely ignored.