Baroness Wilcox and Gordon Murray


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Intellectual Property Minister, Baroness Wilcox, today challenged UK firms to make more use of the ‘green channel’ that helps speed up the patent process for innovative eco-friendly ideas and gives a real boost to their businesses.

The Minister set out the challenge on a series of visits to companies in Surrey that are successfully using their intellectual property to add value to their business. Baroness Wilcox praised Gordon Murray Design for its use of the ‘green channel’ which has allowed the small company to get its product off the ground faster and go on to produce low-cost, environmentally-friendly cars which use recycled plastic bottles in the cars’ body panels.

Baroness Wilcox said: “It’s tremendous to see how an idea has been turned into an actual business product swiftly and efficiently. By using the ‘green channel’, an environmentally friendly idea and novel approach to manufacturing is being brought to market quickly, helping to deliver real value and growth to a typically inventive small British firm.

“ Protecting your intellectual property, and maximising its economic potential, makes a real impact especially for small companies which are the lifeblood of the UK economy.”

Gordon Murray Design is an innovative small firm which has recognised the value in protecting their creative ideas. They designed and developed the iStream® automotive manufacturing process which they are beginning to licence out so that other companies can invest in, manufacture and deliver their environmentally friendly cars. They successfully used the ‘green channel’ to obtain UK patents which meant they were processed faster because the invention had an environmental benefit, and allowed them greater protection and more freedom to get the benefit from their ground-breaking car.

Gordon Murray said: “iStream® manufacturing technology has created an opportunity for Gordon Murray Design to construct a unique IP model in the automotive sector”.
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Baroness Wilcox


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Intellectual Property Minister, Baroness Wilcox, today challenged UK firms to make more use of the ‘green channel’ that helps speed up the patent process for innovative eco-friendly ideas and gives a real boost to their businesses.

The Minister set out the challenge on a series of visits to companies in Surrey that are successfully using their intellectual property to add value to their business. Baroness Wilcox praised Gordon Murray Design for its use of the ‘green channel’ which has allowed the small company to get its product off the ground faster and go on to produce low-cost, environmentally-friendly cars which use recycled plastic bottles in the cars’ body panels.

Baroness Wilcox said: “It’s tremendous to see how an idea has been turned into an actual business product swiftly and efficiently. By using the ‘green channel’, an environmentally friendly idea and novel approach to manufacturing is being brought to market quickly, helping to deliver real value and growth to a typically inventive small British firm.

“ Protecting your intellectual property, and maximising its economic potential, makes a real impact especially for small companies which are the lifeblood of the UK economy.”

Gordon Murray Design is an innovative small firm which has recognised the value in protecting their creative ideas. They designed and developed the iStream® automotive manufacturing process which they are beginning to licence out so that other companies can invest in, manufacture and deliver their environmentally friendly cars. They successfully used the ‘green channel’ to obtain UK patents which meant they were processed faster because the invention had an environmental benefit, and allowed them greater protection and more freedom to get the benefit from their ground-breaking car.

Gordon Murray said: “iStream® manufacturing technology has created an opportunity for Gordon Murray Design to construct a unique IP model in the automotive sector”.
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Real breadmaking


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At The Bigger Picture: Festival of Interdependence, 24 October 2009

www.thebiggerpicture2009.org

www.neweconomics.org

Photography by Tim Mitchell
www.timmitchellphotography.co.uk

Well – I’m ‘pretty’ sure this is Wakefield Kirkgate – time will tell

Bailing out the Greek economy with British taxpayers money. Re-uploading as incompetent youtube failed the previous upload of this video. Recorded from BBC Question Time, 23 February 2012.

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Best answer:

Answer by simplicitus
No economy in the world is stable from a long term perspective. It is clear that the current economic system is simply not sustainable which, by definition, means it is not stable.

http://dieoff.org/page110.htm

http://home.windstream.net/bsundquist1/

Among the developed economies, Japan and the U.K. are major net importers of food. The impact of climate change on food production is thus going to be an even bigger issue for these countries than for other developed countries.

http://greedgreengrains.blogspot.com/2009/10/ifpri-report-on-climate-change-and-food.html

http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/agriculture-and-food-systems-unsustainable/

Oil prices are expected to rise as the developing economies continue to grow rapidly:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/has-the-world-run-out-of-spare-capacity/

The developed economies are built on cheap energy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_intensity

If oil prices rise too high, there will be major recessions in the developed world:

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/francis/archive/2009/09/16/oil-prices-mean-perpetual-recession.aspx

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12117902

As for the U.K. in particular, the new government with its austerity program will not help.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/feb/01/economy-economics

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/10/the-british-conservatives-have-no-theory.html

People pretend that these problems aren’t ‘real’, that new technologies will save the day, etc. But:

1. Even if new technologies do come in to save the day, they will have to cause major changes in the existing economy. The changes will be diferent and perhaps better than not having the new technology, but either way, you won’t have stability.

2. It takes time to build infrastructure. Even if we had the great new technology today, it would take decades for all the associated infrastructure to be built. Things are going to change in the meantime.

What do you think? Answer below!

Question by this person: What happens to your student loans if you transfer to a different college?
I transferred to a different college and I was just wondering what happens to the student loans from the other college? There is a grace period of 6 months after I graduate, but does that mean I graduate in general or from the college I took the loans out from?
There are federal loans not private ones.

Best answer:

Answer by David
It depends on the terms of the loan.

Read the fine print of the papers you signed. Everything should be right there.

Good luck,

Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!

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Sorry I’m really far behind in uploads. I would try to do a better job with tagging. Maybe later. This was from a really brief trip to London three weeks ago (was it that long ago?). Got to visit my Brittish relatives which was really fun!

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Sorry I’m really far behind in uploads. I would try to do a better job with tagging. Maybe later. This was from a really brief trip to London three weeks ago (was it that long ago?). Got to visit my Brittish relatives which was really fun!

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Image by Luke Stearns
Sorry I’m really far behind in uploads. I would try to do a better job with tagging. Maybe later. This was from a really brief trip to London three weeks ago (was it that long ago?). Got to visit my Brittish relatives which was really fun!