Press Releases
Turnaround in Robot Sales to UK Companies Shows Some Grounds for Economic Optimism
British Automation and Robot Association (BARA) show some signs of an increase in investment in automation by UK companies. After a run of six quarters where robot sales in the UK had been reduced from similar figures from the previous year, finally quarter four figures in 2002 show an increase. Robot vendors are also predicting a good first quarter for 2003 with some large orders from the automotive industry due to be placed.
Scientists from Russia's Oldest University Turn to the University of Warwick
Scientists from Lomonosov Moscow State University will visit Warwick Ventures, a department of the University of Warwick, on 17th December 2002 to tap into Warwick's expertise in transferring new scientific and technological developments into industry.
New Partnership Between Two Leading Advocates of Co-operation Between Universities and Industry
Two of world’s leading advocates of close co-operation between universities and industry have formed a new partnership. The Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), and the University of Warwick’s Warwick Manufacturing Group, have signed an agreement that will double the number of Malaysian students studying each year on the Warwick Manufacturing Group’s Masters degree programmes (from around fifty to one hundred).
Can Entrepreneurship be Taught?
Can entrepreneurship be taught? A group of international professors certainly believe that it can. Far from being hostile to the entrepreneurial instinct eminent academics are launching a new journal with a mission to provide state-of-the-art education for potential innovators.
e-Commerce Minister & Midlands SME First in Coffee Queue at New Cyber Cafe for Business
The DTI and the University of Warwick's Warwick Manufacturing Group have created a unique "cyber café for business" designed specifically for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to explore, create and test drive e-business solutions to their business needs.
WBS Professor is Awarded an MBE
Professor Linda Dickens, of Warwick Business School, received her MBE
from Prince Charles at a Buckingham Palace Investiture last week, 21st
November. The MBE was conferred on her in the Queen's Jubilee Honours
List for 'services to employment relations.