Spinning it out at Thermo Electron
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Geroge Hatsopoulos may have invented the business incubator when his Thermo Electron beganning spinning-out new product lines ad independent businesses in 1983. Thermo now has 22 spin-outs and spin-outs of spin-outs for which it provides banking, legal, tax and human-resource services.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1997
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Lasing around: optical technology
Article Abstract:
Researchers are developing a gallium-arsenide laser with a surface of concentric circles that focuses the beams. The surface works like a Bragg deflector, focusing a semiconductor laser's characteristic elliptical beam into a tight circle.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1993
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Spinning around
Article Abstract:
Research has shown that spinning particles of space dust generate radio signals. The signals are showing astronomers dust which was previously invisible.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 2001
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