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Centre for Exploitation of Science and Technology
STAKES, the National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health
Centre for Accessible Environments
Institute of Materials
MIT Media Laboratory
Technology Management and Policy Programme
 

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WHO Centre for Exploitation of Science and Technology
 
WHERE
http://www.cest.org.uk/

WHAT
Centre for Exploitation of Science and Technology (CEST) helps organisations across Europe work together to find and realise attractive new business opportunities. CEST Members - covering blue chip companies, leading universities and government departments - guarantee our neutrality and stimulate us with ideas for "white spaces" - in the gaps between traditional business sectors/processes where new opportunities might be found.




WHO
STAKES, the National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health
 
WHERE http://www.stakes.fi/english

WHAT STAKES is committed to safeguarding the future of social welfare and health, to enhancing the health and social well-being of the nation and to promoting social welfare and health services that are of a high quality and cost-effective for all citizens alike.



WHO
The Centre for Accessible Environments
 
WHERE http://www.cae.org.uk/

WHAT The Centre for Accessible Environments (CAE) is committed to the provision of buildings and places which are accessible to all users, including disabled and older people, and to the enhancement of quality in design. It is a technical information training and consultancy resource for the construction industry, providers of goods and services, the care professions and disabled people. The Centre is also a forum for collaborative dialogue between providers and users on how the built environment can best be shaped to be accessible to all.



WHO
The Institute of Materials
 
WHERE
http://www.instmat.co.uk/

WHAT The Institute of Materials (I0M) the professional body of the materials science and engineering community. With a membership of over 18,000 individuals throughout the UK and Europe, the Institute represents a formidable range of expertise across the disciplines of ceramics, metals, polymers, and composites.




WHO
The MIT Media Laboratory
 
WHERE http://www.media.mit.edu/Research/


WHAT The outline of the Media Laboratory was formed in 1980 by Professor Nicholas Negroponte and former MIT President Jerome Wiesner, growing out of the work of MIT's Architecture Machine Group, and building on the seminal work of faculty members in a range of other disciplines, from cognition and learning to electronic music and holography. It officially opened its doors for business in the Wiesner Building, designed by I.M. Pei, in 1985. In its first decade, much of the Laboratory's activity centered around abstracting electronic content from its traditional physical representations, helping create now-familiar areas such as digital video and multimedia. The success of this agenda is now leading to a growing focus on how bits meet atoms: how electronic information overlaps with the everyday physical world. The Laboratory pioneered collaboration between academia and industry, and provides a unique environment to explore basic research and applications, without regard to traditional divisions among disciplines.



WHO
The Technology Management and Policy Programme

WHERE http://techmapp.ed.ac.uk/

WHAT Technology management and policy is crucial for industrial innovation, economic growth and improvements in social development. The Technology Management and Policy Programme (TechMaPP) at The University of Edinburgh is an integrated programme of research, consultancy and education. It builds on distinctive conceptual foundations and addresses technological and industrial issue of particular relevance to Scotland, the UK and Europe. TechMaPP aims to deepen current understandings of technology development and innovation and to mobilise these to inform policy and strategic thinking. The transformation of social science ideas into useful policy instruments is central to TechMaPP. One of TechMaPP's projects is the Design Council funded project entitled: Increasing Information Intensity: Towards Intelligent Products. This ran from 1996 to 2000.
 






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