10:50, Mon 2 Apr 2007
A brief presentation of where the WIMRC currently is and some feed back
on how to get research funded by it.
09:07, Tue 13 Mar 2007
Alistair Keddie - WMG
A wide ranging view of the economic importance of innovation drawing on recent UK and international evidence.
This will cover company performance, characteristics of innovative companies,
the role of R&D as one element of innovation, and current UK Government policy.
Questions for discussion will include:
does the best technology win?,
is the Government's ambition of raising UK R&D invest from currently 1.9% of GDP to 2.5% by 2014 realistic?
do the most successful business models exclude manufacturing?
how long will low labour cost advantages of emerging economies last?
11:37, Thu 18 Jan 2007
Gunny Dhadyalla - PARD, Peter Jones (Eng), Ross McMurran (PARD)
This joint project between the Electrical and E-Business teams within PARD, aims to demonstrate the use of Bayesian networks within the automotive domain for the diagnostics of electrical systems. This is being done through a pilot trial utilising wireless connectivity to allow transmission of data between dealers and the OEM for the adaptation of the Bayesian networks.
12:34, Wed 8 Nov 2006
WMG Seminar 08/11/06 - Mark Amor Segan (PARD) talks about the work he has been doing with Ross McMurran & Peter Jones on self healing vehicles.
