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Taking off: at the launch of Scotland’s first industry-driven strategy for enabling technologies, Martin Burns of Freescale Semiconductor displays its concept car and Dr Richard Smith of BAE Systems holds a model of the Herti unmanned plane.

Photographer: Image by Scottish Enterprise

Industry-Driven Plan To Create 38,000 Jobs In Scotland

23 February 2010

by Ray Cooling, London Press Service

Science & Technology » Research & Development

A MOVE to boost Scotland’s economy by nine per cent and create more than 38,000 jobs has been outlined by the country’s Technology Advisory Group. read more

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MORE accurate global weather forecasts and a better understanding of climate change are in prospect, thanks to a breakthrough by engineers in the UK.

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Energy Futures Lab To Find New Sources Of Power

MANY of the best minds in United Kingdom have been brought together in a bid to develop fresh sources of energy.

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Vision Unveiled For World-Leading Biomedical Research Hub

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Geneticists Unearth The Roots Of Human Variation

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Genetiker verfolgen die Spuren menschlicher Vielfalt

Des généticiens découvrent les souches de la variation humaine

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Des robots pour évaluer nos mécanismes d’apprentissage ?

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TECHNOLOGY to enable an amazing advance in industrial laser printing speeds has been developed by a UK company, by using high-powered fibre-optic lasers to print information on finished products.

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