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2008 back issues

• August - The Queen's Awards, WRTI/IMechE Awards, KlenzPod, Sir James Dyson, Shadow Caddy, Live Luggage, £50,000 Fiat competition, £60,000 commercialisation fund, Legal due diligence, Free CAD training, Joshua Rozenberg, Invention Intelligence.
• July - Google Lunar X PRIZE, WRTI Public Keynote Lecture, Sir James Dyson, Oarsome potential, E-Fuel 100 MicroFueler, 'Paper towel' for oil spills, Sustainable Business Awards, Free publications, seminars and software, Jenni Idea Management, womenintechnology.co.uk, Inside the Patent Factory.
• June - The Richard Report on Small Business & Government, WRTI Public Keynote Lecture, Sir James Dyson, Ballast-free ships, FLOODSTOP, Festival of Design & Innovation, IET Innovation Awards, The ivy's nano-secret, Kulveer Taggar, BlackBerry Women & Technology Awards, Manufacturing Advisory Service, Group Genius.
• May - Oxford Innovation/Bank of Scotland £2m fund, LifeLock award, Venturefest 2008, Sir James Dyson, VisiLok, GUARD-IDEAS, SurveyMonkey, Grass Snake Cable Grip, The $10m Automotive X Prize, Kurt Jacobsen, The squid's unique beak, Ten Fingers Limited, The Mind Mapping Manifesto, equalitec.co.uk.
• April - BFIIN Inventor of the Year Award, Capital Inventions Show, Marilyn Huckerby, Aqua-Sac SOS Bag, Nokia's Morph Open Mode, Biologic ZorinPump, Flo Control fuel can, National Hardware Show, Embedded Masterclass, Shell Springboard winner, TRIZCON, Business Plan Pro, The Gecko's Tall Tail, www.pro-talk.com.
• March - Cologne International Hardware Fair, Creative Thinking lecture, Remap, Marilyn Huckerby, Rinspeed's sQuba, NASA's Chariot, Laffin-Gas hybrid rocket motor, Swanton's free design offer, South Coast International Trade Forum, Free design engineers' handbook, illumin8, Thames Innovation Centre, www.equalitec.co.uk.
• February - Home Invention of the Year competition, Business South Show, Open Innovation by Treve Willis, Thames Water's Leakfrog, The eCube, Graduate Jobs Southampton, Kent Innovation Challenge, Southern Manufacturing & Electronics Exhibition, The Tele-Trac, The Biological Hierarchy, Marine South East, The Myth of the Mousetrap by Anne Miller.
• January - Eco Media Player, Geneva Palexpo, How to promote your invention, Liz Taylor, USBCELL's National Energy Efficiency Award, Innovation Advisory Service funding seminars, Products Made in China Ltd, E.ON EnergyLab regional finalist, One Laptop per Child Foundation, Free 'How To Create An e-Business' seminar, Google's RE<C initiative, The Global Lab, GB Electronic Productions Ltd, Humble Masterpieces, www.innovationtools.com.

2007 back issues

• January - Grass Snake Cable Grip, BIS 2006 products, Evan Davis, Licensing your product-4, Inventorlink Roadshow, Investor networks.
• February/March - Path Intelligence, Sussex Innovation Centre, Licensing your product-5, UK Intellectual Property Office, Tearing tracing paper, PR Newswire UK.
• April - Innovation & Design Excellence Awards (iDEA), BFIIN honours WRTI, TalkingPhotos.co.uk, Grass Snake grabs two Industry Awards, Top 10 Lies-1, Licensing your product-6, Enterprising Women conference, istvonline.co.uk, The Unwritten Laws of Business.
• May - abettermousetrap.co.uk, Cardiff's innovation marketplace, Top 10 Lies-2, Inventor's show in Portugal, Waterproof paper, Patent Plan's Palexpo, Bournemouth University's festival of design & innovation, Fusion Comference for women in SET, Parallel Paths PTS, The Protomold Company, A handbook of intellectual property management.
• June/July - WRTI Annual Public Keynote Lecture, British Invention Show, INPEX Show, British Female Inventor of the Year, Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, Portsmouth University's Hot Topic Seminar, Chilworth Business Club's free lunchtime seminar, Hampshire Discovery Centres, Good Company Publicity.
• August/September - The British Invention Show, Inventors Showcase, London Innovation conference, Peter Hebard, E.ON EnergyLab challenge, Startups.co.uk.
• October - WRTI at The British Invention Show, Paul Sloane, The Talking First Aid Kit, New UK-IPO proposals for fast-track patents and trade mark, Apple's use of intellectual property, WRTI/IMechE Award winners 2007, InventorResource.co.uk.
• November - November - WRTI members win five gold medals at The British Invention Show, Paul Sloane, Chilworth Business Club, Licensing/IP clinics, Clean energy inventions, Equalitec innovation workshop, Enterprising women, Enterprise First, Sussex Innovation Centre IP seminar, everywoman.co.uk.
• December - BFIIN Awards, WestFocus Enterprising Business Awards, Innovation Into Action show, Choosing your markets, Liz Taylor, KlenzPod's Inventors & Entrepreneurs Exhibition triumph, New QuickPitch tent, Yellowfin's £11m deals, Sussex Innovation Centre's free seminar, The Locust Excavator, The Enterprise Hub Network, www.inventionshowcase.com.

2006 back issues

• January - Business Link Wessex technology licencing workshop, Oxford University Business Plan Competition, The Royal Academy of Engineering £50,000 MacRobert Award, Customers as a source of innovative ideas, IPR Checklist, The Kinkajou projector, NASA's $250,000 Centennial Challenge, EC trademark fees, EU ban on lead-based solder, businessdynamics.
• February - British Female Inventors & Innovators Awards, Free business newspaper launch, Bolton Technical Innovation Centre, Data Protection issues-1, Building a better hydrogen trap, MIT's city car, Southampton's 'Business South' show, 5th Art and Mind Festival, World Wide Web conference.
• March - Innovention 2006, Patent Office consultation, Young Woman Engineer of the Year, Design and the economy, Data Protection issues-2, $6m landing craft, Bristol's spacecraft repair kit, Adam Nieman's Space Signpost, Luca Giancardo, National Ideas Week, OECD R&D report, Creative Ventures Consortium.
• April - pre.vu music sampler, Gowers Review of Intellectual Property, Design and the economy-2, Data Protection issues-3, The Talking Walls, Rotating Cylinder Valve engine, SEEDA PoCKeT Award, MBox, Ukraine Inventors Show, Water Vortex Lamp, Hampshire Business Magazine, Inventors-Showcase.
• May - IMechE supports WRTI Innovation Awards, Design and the economy-3, Data Protection issues-4, Startups Awards 2006, the Woodpecker Hammer, Hot Topics Seminar, the Hovercraft Museum.
• June - WRTI at Innovention 2006, Bournemouth University's Festival of Design & Innovation, Cheltenham Festival of Science, Creating a culture of innovation, Data Protection issues-5, Procter & Gamble's 'Connect and Develop' strategy, The STARcarpet, Wessex Ventures Limited.
• July - Trevor Baylis, WRTI Innovention winners, AirSense pocket PC technology, Creating a new British Standard for Inventors, Data Protection issues-6, Hot Topic Seminar: China, Oxford Innovation merger, the Catsclaw wheel, Dataprint Ltd.
• August - The Dyson School of Design Innovation, Shell Springboard Fund, The Big Idea, Patent Plan-1, Licensing your product-1, George's Wood, Prowess Ltd.
• September - British Invention Show 2006, Goodyear National HydraGrip Competition, Portsmouth Festival of Innovation & Enterprise, Patent Plan-2, Licensing your product-2, The bouncing hedgehog and 'imperfect design', IDEO.
• October - USBcell battery, British Invention Show 2006, Dorset Business Awards, Using Inventions companies, Licensing your product-3, The wood-wasp drill, The Powergen Energylab challenge, NESTA's Invention & Innovation Programme, Inventorlink Products Ltd.
• November - LifeLock is awarded two Gold Medals, Sussex Innovation Centre, MoD's £10m Competition of Ideas, The Enterprising Women Community, Exhibitors at the British Invention Show 2006, The drip-free drink, The National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship.
• December - Gowers Review of Intellectual Property, BBC Dragons' Den, Evan Davis, Prowess national survey, Auxetic materials, Insect strain gauges, The Development Capital Exchange.

2005 back issues

• January - Obituary: David Nicholas MBE, Linda Oakley-3, Licence agreements-3, Geneva Palexpo, Association for Women in Science and Engineering.
• February - Inventors' Academy, Mark Sheahan, UK R&D boost, Eureka Magazine.
• March - Trevor Baylis, Pill Press, Nanotechology debate-1, Inventors' shareholdings-1, The Orchard Network, Gerry Brierley, WirelessMatch.
• April - Beer-mag, Innovention 2005, Nanotechnology debate-2, Inventors' shareholdings-2, DTI R&D grants, The Beermat Entrepreneur.
• May - Desktop Mobile Pathfinder, Farnborough Enterprise Hub, Patent reform-1, Inventors' shareholdings-3, NanoSight Limited.
• June - WRTI Inventors Clinics, Patent reform-2, Shareholders' disputes, EU Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions, Innovention 2005, David Nicholas Innovation Award 2005, Winning a DTI Grant.
• July - LifeLock/Innovention 2005, tftMouse/David Nicholas Innovation Award, Graham Barker, Out and About, Gold Medal (Romsey) Ltd.
• August - Talking Labels for Medication, British Invention Show 2005, Free WRTI student membership, Nicola Rathbone, Southern Technology Network, Hampshire IoD, The price of innovation, Southampton Solent University.
• September - Microwave-powered UV sanitisation, Portsmouth Festival of Innovation & Enterprise, Girls and technology, Intellectual Property Rights-1, Southampton Solent University, Out and about, R&D Magazine.
• October - The British Invention Show 2005, Bournemouth University's Prototype & Virtual Manufacturing Centre, How to avoid making a mess of marketing, The link between creativity and dyslexia, Intellectual Property Rights-2, Winchester Festival of Art & Mind, The National Physical Laboratory.
• November - Portsmouth Technopole, new Patent Office opinions service, Creativity and dyslexia-2, intellectual property rights-3, MIT's $100 wind-up laptop, EU innovation scoreboard, Innovation clinics, National Inventors Hall of Fame.
• December - WRTI award-winners at the British Inventors Show, Symetrica's NESTA award, IDEA Diagnostic trial, Intellectual property rights - 4, ULTra's £7.5m boost, Out and about, UK Trade & Investment Team Southeast.

2004 back issues

• January - British Invention Show Awards, Joff Wild-1, IPR, Business Link Wessex.
• February - The Thomson Engine, Joff Wild-2, Design registration, Jules May, Wales Innovators Network.
• March - Inventor's Academy, Joff Wild-3, the inventors' pool, Innovention 2004.
• April - www.wrti.org.uk, David Beer, Brands-1, Born in the USA-1, Sycamore Innovation Management.
• May - Business Link Wessex, Tim Denholm, Brands-2, Intellectual Asset Management magazine.
• June - Andrew Self, Kate Stead, Copyright, Born in the USA-2, SETsquared.
• July - Brian Stickley, Virginia Rabbitts, NDAs, Kingston Enterprise Exchange.
• August - DTI's new R&D Grant, Ian Solway, Commercial Practice-1, The Patent Office.
• September - WRTI Associates launch, Dikla Peebles, Commercial Practice-2, Lawdit solicitors.
• October - British Invention Show, Darrell Mann, Commercial Practice-3, Queen's Awards for Enterprise.
• November - WRTI wins at British Invention Show, Linda Oakley-1, Licence agreements-1, A Handbook of Intellectual Property Management.
• December - WRTI in Iraq, Linda Oakley-2, Licence agreements-2, ideas21.

2003 back issues

• May - Mandy Haberman, Alan Wilcher, TRIZ-1, International Inventor Asociations, Southampton Institute.
• June - Autocone, Gravity Pumps, James Dyson, TRIZ-2, INTECH, Brian Stickley.
• July - Hose-Track, NESTA, TRIZ-3, START Fareham.
• August - Talking Tins, Mandy Haberman, TRIZ-4, South East Hampshire Enterprise Agencies.
• September - British Invention Show, Tony Howells, TRIZ-5, Small Business Service.
• October - Autocone/Balfour Beatty, Kit Grundy, TRIZ-6, Technical Commercialization USA.
• November - www.wrti.org.uk launch, Les McCall says: "Bring back Menlo Park", TRIZ-7, The Business of Invention.
• December - Cambridge Enterprise Competition, Mike Smithard, TRIZ-8, Baylis Brands.

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