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Can regional clusters be engineered?
Professor William Webb FREng
Is the Cambridge Cluster a unique phenonemon in the location and development of high-technology industries or can its success be replicated elsewhere in the UK?
Innovation entrepreneurs
Michael Kenward OBE
The story of two UK professors who left the world of research for the uncertain but ultimately profitable world of innovative technologies and start-up businesses
Dr Hermann Hauser CBE FREng - An Inspiring Entrepreneur
Michael Kenward OBE
One of the UK’s leading investors in high-tech businesses tells Michael Kenward how an investment of £50 started his succesful life as an entrepreneur
Mending Broken Legs
Peter Ogrodnik
How the Staffordshire Orthopaedic Reduction Machine has met a clinical need in the re-alignment of leg fractures
JCB Dieselmax – powering the World's Fastest Diesel Vehicle
David Tremayne
How a standard JCB engine was turned into a 350mph diesel record breaker
Supersize Wings
Rob Bray
The challenges of designing the wings for the world's largest passenger aircraft, the Airbus A380
Brightening Lives
Professor Richard De La Rue FREng
How optoelectronic semiconductors are continuing to have an impact on modern life through the discovery of new materials and new design structures
Responses to 'Research with impact' and 'Sinking a frigate'
Professor Philip Esler, Professor James S Harrison FREng, Professor Bob Stone, Dr Paul Robinson and Plymouth's Professorial Team consisting of Bob Stone, Geoff Skates and John Gittus FREng, with support from Dr Paul Robinson
Systems Biology: the basis of a third Industrial Revolution?
Professor Richard Kitney OBE FREng and Dr Loredana Santoro
Seeing Into The Future
Alastair Atkinson
How the retinal detachment suffered by an five year old boy inspired a revolution in ocular technology