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...Diane Coyle, Bennett professor of public policy at University of Cambridge: No, it will take longer, and be slower than our peers....
...We want to show them how to interface with it and to feel they have some agency instead of being victims of technologists and remote corporations.”...
...They include JSR Corporation, the Japanese materials multinational, which has taken a 5.5 per cent stake in Cambridge Quantum Computing, and is also one of the first companies to work with IBM since the...
...He recently joked that a meeting with the City of London Corporation was “a cross I have to bear”....
...I believe interviewers can tell the difference between a candidate who is quite interested v. a candidate who is genuinely passionate....
...Nor is there much social questioning of the headlong rush of technological development in the hands of private corporations....
...I’ve already announced a reduction in our corporation tax rate to 18%....
...The breakdown came in a tense conference call, about a year before the acquisition turned sour, between Ms Whitman in Palo Alto, California, and Mr Lynch and his top team in Cambridge, England....
...It means that small groups and networks – families, corporations, select universities – use their inside knowledge of how power works to work it to their own advantage....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...The Cambridge university professor is especially strong on the British and German dimensions of his story....
...After his parents divorced he was brought up in Dorset, attended Wellington School and read history at Trinity College, Cambridge....
...Nigeria’s Guaranty Trust Bank became the first African corporation to support art in Britain when it sponsored Tate Britain’s current exhibition of paintings by Chris Ofili, a painter of Nigerian heritage...
...Andrew Herbert, managing director, Microsoft Research, Cambridge. Stephanie Hilborne, chief executive, the Wildlife Trusts. Gareth Hoskins, architect....
...Stiles’s superbly written book argues that the main legacy of the “robber baron” and “railroad king” was the giant but invisible corporation, so big that it was able to crush its competitors....
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