GamePolitics.com (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
The British Minister of State for Science and Innovation, Lord Drayson (left), endorsed the work of the Serious Games Institute during a visit last week to SGI, which is located at England's Coventry University. A University press release reports: During his visit Lord Drayson... learnt about the use of virtual worlds and simulation games to train doctors and clinicians in a variety...
DoughStreet.com (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
The British Minister of State for Science and Innovation, Lord Drayson (left), endorsed the work of the Serious Games Institute during a visit last week to SGI, which is located at England’s Coventry University. A University press release reports: During his visit Lord Drayson… learnt about the use of virtual worlds and simulation games to train [...]
Startup Meme (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
The Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire , will get a research centre chartered by the European Space Agency and Innovation minister Lord Drayson. The charter being itself worth of €10bn.The centre will research on topics such as Finding out new cheap power sources Developing robots fro space. The development of ExoMars - a robotic probe which will search for life on Mars. It...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
The European Space Agency (Esa) is to open a research centre near Oxford. The facility, which will be built at the Harwell science and innovation campus in Oxfordshire, could be up and running within a year. The science minister, Lord Drayson, and Esa's director-general, Jean-Jacques Dordain, signed an agreement after a two-day ministerial meeting in The Hague. The government will bear the...
[SoftRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
The Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire , will get a research centre chartered by the European Space Agency and Innovation minister Lord Drayson. The charter being itself worth of...
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
A European Space Agency (ESA) research center will be established in the UK following an agreement made by Science and Innovation Minister, Lord Drayson today. Lord Drayson and ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain signed an agreement in principle to secure an ESA research centre in the UK at the ESA Ministerial taking place this week [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
The science minister Lord Drayson called today for a major new space facility to be built in Britain in a speech to the European Space Agency (Esa) . Government officials are drawing up plans for a space centre that will focus on observing climate change from space and developing robotics for future missions. The facility would be based at Harwell in Oxfordshire. Speaking at the agency's ministerial...
The engineer (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
The government and the (ESA) have signed an agreement-in-principle to develop an ESA research centre at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus (HSIC), Oxfordshire. Lord Drayson, UK minister for science and innovation and ESA director-general, Jean-Jacques Dordain, signed the agreement to secure an ESA research centre in the UK at an ESA Ministerial conference at The Hague on 26 November....
The Independent (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
... the driving force behind the project from the get-go; Noble recalls his first meeting with Lord Drayson, then Minister of State for Defence Equipment and Support and now Science and Innovation Minister: "He told me that we have a God-awful problem in the MOD, which is simply that we are having real trouble recruiting engineers. So, I went off and did my research on it and found that things...
ESA (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Aerial view of the Harwell Science and Innovation CampusNew ESA centre in United Kingdom 27 November 2008A step towards the creation of a new European Space Agency research centre in the United Kingdom was taken this week with an agreement made at the ESA Ministerial Council in The Hague. ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain and the UK Science and Innovation Minister, Lord Drayson, signed...
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Brig Kincaid said much of the impetus for change within the MoD had gone with the departure last year of the Defence Procurement Minister, Lord Drayson, who left to pursue his motor racing ambitions. "Under Drayson the pace was hot." Brig Kincaid wrote. "He has now gone. Will his achievements be confined to the rubbish heap and will MoD revert to 'business as usual'?"
icWales (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Brig Kincaid said much of the impetus for change within the MoD had gone with the departure last year of the Defence Procurement Minister, Lord Drayson, who left to pursue his motor racing ambitions. "Under Drayson the pace was hot." Brig Kincaid wrote. "He has now gone. Will his achievements be confined to the rubbish heap and will MoD revert to 'business as usual'?"
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk - Liverpool News (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Brig Kincaid said much of the impetus for change within the MoD had gone with the departure last year of the Defence Procurement Minister, Lord Drayson, who left to pursue his motor racing ambitions. "Under Drayson the pace was hot." Brig Kincaid wrote. "He has now gone. Will his achievements be confined to the rubbish heap and will MoD revert to 'business as usual'?"
