Press Releases
7th Anniversary of Lottery sees Saturday Game drop by £20 million
This month sees the 7th anniversary of the UK's National Lottery - first sales, 14 November 1994, first draw, 19 November 1994 - and also sees the start of Camelot's second seven year license period, In a research report published in the latest issue of the Economic Journal, Professor Ian Walker from the University of Warwick and Juliet Young analyse the lottery.
Research Says Government Wrong to Lift Electricity Price Controls, Not Enough Competition
New research by a team including Dr Monica Giulietti, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Warwick's Warwick Business School believes that, despite today's announcement on electricity price controls, that there is still not enough competition to lift price controls on electricity markets in Britain.
National Award for University Support that Helped Coventry Company Achieve 700% Increase in Sales
The University of Warwick has won the national best TCS programme award for its work with Coventry company Improvision which has helped that company increase sales by 700%, profits by 300%, and grow its number of employees from 12 to 45. The University of Warwick's Computer Science Department supplied two TCS (TCS originally stood for Teaching Company Scheme) associates (or researchers) with an academic supervisor to help the business develop a highly innovative new software for 2D and 3D image processing for optical microscopes The Academic Supervisor Tim Atherton, and the two Associates Robert Morrey and Benjohn Barnes (both of whom are PhD researchers in the University of Warwick's Computer Science Department), were given the aim of collaborating with the company to produce innovative 3D imaging products that would make Improvision a global market leader.
Virtual Reality Technology to Give Companies Commercial Edge in Exploiting their Business Data
Virtual reality research at the University of Warwick is set to give companies fresh and faster insights into their business data.
Economist Says Britain's Workers Love Their Jobs Despite Facing Increasing Levels of Stress
Research by University of Warwick economist Professor Andrew Oswald reveals that British workers still show a high degree of job satisfaction despite a significant increase in job stress levels in the last decade.
Stop Tinkering With "Good Causes" And Just Have An Auction To Decide Lottery Ownership
University of Warwick Economist Professor Ian Walker has called on Lottery Commissioners to stop worrying about how the two bidders will fund good causes and simply hold an auction to decide ownership of the Lottery.