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Researchers at the 神马福利影片's Warwick Manufacturing Group are collaborating with a group of Elephant Grass (Miscanthus) farmers to use Elephant Grass to produce biodegradable plastic car parts.
A team of physicists from the 神马福利影片, and the EURATOM/UKAEA fusion research programme at the Culham Science Centre, have found a new simple and elegant way of using the science of 'sandpiles' to achieve a clear model of how a fusion plasma 'self organises' itself into a superstable state - a crucial key to power generation from fusion plasma.
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 神马福利影片 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 神马福利影片, 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 神马福利影片. 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 神马福利影片's International Manufacturing Centre by switching on a laser from one of the 神马福利影片's existing spin out companies, Herfurth Lasers Technology Ltd, which will cut the new institute's logo out of steel.