Press Releases
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.
£1 million Project to Improve Quality of New Homes
One of Britain's top 10 housebuilders is working with the University of Warwick to improve the quality of new homes. The £1 million Hobman II (House Building as a Manufacturing Process) project between Westbury Homes and the University's Manufacturing Group, follows the success of an earlier programme, credited with setting out the direction for Westbury's five-year plan. "Customers want choice, speed and flexibility but at the moment they are not getting it" said Project Director, Rajat Roy of the University' of Warwick. "We intend to apply the disciplines of manufacturing industry to house building and develop a better way of doing things."
New Research Shows Just How Much We Hate Winners
New research by economists at the Universities of Warwick and Oxford has provided surprising information on just how much people hate a winner. It also shows what lengths human beings are prepared to go to damage a winner out of a sense of envy or fairness.
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.
New SAFENET System lets individual safety devices Actually Talk to Each Other
Safety systems have long preferred to stay in splendid paranoid isolation. Every emergency stop button, safety mat, light curtain, or safety lock has jealousy guarded its own complex wiring for fear of confusion with the operation of other safety systems. Now a new integrated approach to safety systems has been devised called SafeNet which allows a manufacturing plant, or other system operator, to integrate all their safety systems in a single network, allowing them to operate and monitor an integrated network of safety systems with confidence.