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Productivity Growth High for High-Tech
NEW YORK -- NEW YORK -- A recent study examining US Census Bureau data from 1963 to 1992 shows that the labor productivity (value added per hour worked) of plants that manufacture high-tech products grew at an average rate of 3.3 percent, compared with 2.5 percent for all manufacturing industries. The report, authored by Robert H. McGuckin and Kevin J. Stiroh and published by The Conference Board Inc., covers almost all US manufacturing plants in operation during that time. McGuckin, director of economic...
Research Associateships Open for 2000
Nov 1, 1999 — The National Research Council in Washington has announced that it is seeking applications for approximately 350 postdoctoral and senior research associateship awards in 2000. More than 120 research laboratories representing US government agencies...
University Strengthens Security, Management
Nov 1, 1999 — The University of California in San Francisco has hired retired US Air Force Col. Raymond "Terry" Owens as manager of safeguards for the US Department of Energy’s national laboratories operated by the university. The move followed suspicions...
US and Israel Continue Work on Laser Weapon
Nov 1, 1999 — The US Army Space and Missile Defense Command and the Israeli Ministry of Defense have agreed to spend another $46.6 million on an antimissile laser that has been under development since July 1996. The Tactical High Energy Laser program, which has...
US Department of Defense Offers Small-Business Grants
Nov 1, 1999 — The US Department of Defense has opened solicitation for its $540 million Small Business Innovation Research program for 2000. Applicants, which must be US-owned for-profit companies with fewer than 500 employees, can examine the available topics...
Bar-Code-Scanner Makers File Suit against Lemelson Foundation
RENO, Nev. -- RENO, Nev. -- Seven manufacturers of bar-code scanning and printing equipment have jointly filed suit in federal district court in Nevada against the Lemelson Medical, Education and Research Foundation LP, which holds patents on bar-code-reading and...
Bitter Dispute over Trade Secrets Ends Partnership
RICHMOND, British Columbia, Canada -- RICHMOND, British Columbia, Canada -- Xillix Technologies Inc. has filed in Tokyo for arbitration of a dispute with its former partner, Olympus Optical Co. Ltd. of Tokyo. Xillix, a developer of fluorescence-based endoscopy systems used to detect...
Cisco Rivals Fiber Optic Giants
Oct 1, 1999 — The $7.4 billion acquisition of Cerent Corp. of Petaluma, Calif., and Monterey Networks Inc. of Richardson, Texas, signals the entry of the San Jose, Calif.-based Cisco Systems Inc. into the multimedia-network ring. Cisco, which controls about 85...
Flex Products Will Supply Banknote Pigment to China
Oct 1, 1999 — Flex Products Inc., a subsidiary of Santa Rosa, Calif.-based Optical Coating Laboratory Inc., will establish a manufacturing facility in China that will produce the company’s patented optically variable pigment for use on Chinese currency and...
Gender Salary Gap Is Less in Engineering
Oct 1, 1999 — A study funded by the National Science Foundation reported that the salaries of female and male engineers do not reflect the disparity that is endemic to other occupations in the US. The researchers used data from a 1995 survey that reported a...
Intelligent Sensing Market Sees Growth on the Horizon
Oct 1, 1999 — Analysts at Business Communications Co. Inc. in Norwalk, Conn., predicted growth in the market for all intelligent sensing systems. Burgeoning trade in vision chips, electronic noses and artificial tongues will drive the total sales for the industry...
Kidger Optics Announces Scholarship
Oct 1, 1999 — Kidger Optics Ltd. of Crowborough, UK, a designer and supplier of optical design software, announced that it is accepting applications for its Michael Kidger Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship, which was established in 1998, will be presented to...
Laser Sales Drop 6 Percent
Oct 1, 1999 — North American manufacturers of laser systems and industrial laser sources reported that shipments in the second quarter of 1999 were down 6 percent from the levels of the second quarter in 1998. According to a study by the Laser Systems Product...
Managers Know Synergy When They See It
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- US investors in American photonics and high-tech companies are likely to get more return from a merger if the buyer is a foreign company. That was the surprise finding from a study carried out at the University of Illinois’...
Microtechnology Forecast Is Bright
Oct 1, 1999 — According to a report from Business Communications Co. Inc. in Norwalk, Conn., sales of microelectromechanical systems, micromachines and microsystems will experience an average annual growth rate of 21.4 percent in the 1998 to 2002 term. While...
National Ignition Facility Scientist Resigns; Laser Program Faces Delays
Oct 1, 1999 — E. Michael Campbell III, the head of the $1.2 billion National Ignition Facility project at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., resigned from his post when it was revealed that he did not complete his doctorate at Princeton...
Presstek Alleges Patent Infringement
HUDSON, N.H. -- HUDSON, N.H. -- Presstek Inc., a maker of laser-based computer-to-press print heads, has notified Creo Products Inc. of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, that it is infringing Presstek’s patents covering on-press imaging of printing plates....
Acquisitions Drive High-Speed Growth
PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- Making acquisitions is a key path to faster business growth, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers survey of top executives in photonics and other high-tech industries. Companies in acquisition mode reported revenue growth...
Bio-Rad Levels Charges Against Zeiss
Sep 1, 1999 — A dispute over rights to multiphoton fluorescence excitation has emerged between Carl Zeiss GmbH of Jena, Germany, and Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. in Hertfordshire, UK. Bio-Rad says it signed a worldwide exclusive license with Cornell...
Court Upholds Verdict Against GSI
Sep 1, 1999 — The US District Court for the Northern District of California has denied a request by General Scanning Inc. for a new trial concerning a patent infringement dispute with Electro Scientific Industries Inc. of Portland, Ore. The dispute centered on...
First, Give Me the Good News
CLEVELAND -- CLEVELAND -- A new business school study proposes that e-mail may be changing our behavior in ways we are not even aware of. We may be getting down to more straight talk. Yes, that’s right. The study, which appeared in the June issue of...
Free-Space Market Broadens
MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- Lucent Technologies has combined free-space optical communications with dense wavelength division multiplexing technology in a new, high bandwidth, point-to-point commercial system. Intended to bypass the local loop bottleneck,...
Industrial Laser Shipments Slide
Sep 1, 1999 — Industrial laser shipments dropped 10 percent for the first quarter of 1999, despite the increased popularity of CO2 laser systems for cutting applications, according to statistics compiled by the Association for Manufacturing Technology. Last year...
Is US Industrial Growth in Jeopardy?
Sep 1, 1999 — A report from the National Research Council’s Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy has identified trends in research investment that could spell trouble for industrial growth in the US. Because of a budget deficit reduction and...
Israeli Defense Firms Agree to Merge
HAIFA, Israel -- HAIFA, Israel -- Elbit Systems Ltd., which makes military command and control systems, has agreed in principle to merge with Elop Electro-Optics Industries Ltd. of Rehovot, another military equipment manufacturer. At competitor Controp Precision...

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