Giant eyes on the final frontier

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Britain's active involvement in projects such as the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the two ground-based 'Gemini' giant telescopes provides an important boost to the country's scientific prestige. Britain's involvement in funding huge telescopes also draws some of the country's cleverest young people into science and technology. Virtually all research astronomers have access to the Hubble archive, a repository of knowledge of the universe being built up over the lifetime of the HST project.

International aspects, Telescope, Telescopes

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The missing link in multimedia

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The UK convergent media industry requires a new style of management to lead the creative teams, in order to produce the highest quality of work. The bringing together of experts, from various fields in the media, can fail if they are not managed correctly. The convergent media industry includes representatives from the media, communication and computing technologies. A study found that some styles of purely profit based management may prevent creative workers producing their best work.

Management, Management research, Technology

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Knowledge economics

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The UK government's white paper "Excellence and Opportunity" outlines how Britain's scientific strength can benefit the economy. The government plans to attract top scientists back to the UK.

Economic aspects, Recruiting, Science and state, Science policy, Scientists

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