Academic research shouldn’t be made freely available to all
David Willetts, the science minister, has spoken: the Government, in this Olympic year, is ‘going for gold’ – enabling everyone to access university research free of charge.
By Stephen Caddick | Notebook, Opinion | Monday, 23 July 2012 at 4:00 am
What the story of the ATM teaches us about innovation
45 years ago this week, an innovation which brought the British banking industry into the modern age was installed in Enfield, north London – the cash machine. Truly innovative for its time, the ATM was the brainchild of one man, John Shepherd-Barron, after a brainwave when noticing how technology behind vending machines could be applied to banking.
By Stephen Caddick | Notebook, Opinion, Science & Technology | Monday, 25 June 2012 at 12:38 pm
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