Current UK policy on the knowledge-driven economy places a heavy weight of expectation on the fostering of entrepreneurial attitudes amongst university scientists. Interviews with the owner-managers of innovative companies in liquid crystal technology suggest that scientist-entrepreneurs are not...

This paper advances a first-pass theory of change in the styling of objects of domestic utility. It is based on the idea that the expressive potential of design for the maker, the user and the designer exists in tension with other desirable properties of the designed artefact. Respectively these...

<title/> Already commonplace in the private sector, the securitization of future income streams is now being promoted in the public sector as a means of accessing investment capital. This article reports on a British university's securitization of 30 years' future rents on its student accommodation....

The ancient notion of installing turbines directly in waterways, without the use of civil structures, has been reviewed recently. In an early study conducted for the New York Power Authority (NYPA), we reached conclusions regarding the resource and types of kinetic hydroenergy conversion systems...