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The innovation industry

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The manufacturing industry has changed over the past 10 years or so, with companies contracting out in-house R&D facilities and industrial design becoming a further resource on which companies can draw. Many industrial design practices were forced to added qualified engineers to their team and companies now contract experts to deal with certain aspects. The typical client profile has also changed and industrial designers are increasingly having to work for clients with no manufacturing expertise at all.

Author: Harding, Maria
Publisher: Gillard Welch Ltd.
Publication Name: Engineering
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-7782
Year: 1999
Management, Industrial design

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Going for green: Companies are looking for financial benefits from green policies

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Companies are seeking financial benefits from green policies. The government is committed to cuts in CO2 emissions of 20% by 2010 and the Climate Change Levy will help to implement this, however it has been labelled the business energy tax. Sainsbury's Millennium Store on the Greenwich peninsula seeks to reduced its energy consumption by 50%, and BP is strongly promoting its green image by developing products that are biodegradable and less damaging to the environment

Author: Harding, Maria
Publisher: Gillard Welch Ltd.
Publication Name: Engineering
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-7782
Year: 1999
Research, Power resources

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Health check

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The UK's Department of Health and the Department of Trade and Industry are among organisations backing the Integrated Healthcare Technologies programme aimed at improving the competitiveness of UK medical engineering and turning it into a globally recognised source of healthcare products and systems.

Author: Harding, Maria
Publisher: Gillard Welch Ltd.
Publication Name: Engineering
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-7782
Year: 2000
Production management, Health care industry, Equipment and supplies, Biomedical engineering

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