University challenge
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A high-technology boom surrounds the University of Cambridge and the area is one of the fastest-growing and wealthiest in Europe, with an estimated 1,500 high-tech companies and this success is widely attributed to the transfer of ideas from the university into business. The university revised its rules to give it first option on the patent rights for any discovery made in its labs and Cambridge Enterprise, the unit established to run technology transfer and help young firms at the university will eventually become a free-standing company.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2006
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Organic farming enters the mainstream
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The organic agriculture had a sparkling future when few supermarkets stocked organic food and carried little more than some wilted lettuce and a basket of spotty apples. But now, with organic farming entering the mainstream, whole aisles of organic products in many stores command higher prices than food grown by conventional and intensive methods.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
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Organic: is it the future of farming?
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Support for organic farming has frequently become a part of a bigger social and political mindset. However, the origins of organic agriculture have centered their philosophy on practices designed to improve the richness and stability of the soil by restoring its organic matter and avoiding synthetic fertilizers and herbicides.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
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