Tagged: Finland

Declan Waugh continues his distortion of Finnish fluoride research - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Jul 31, 2014 •

• Finland,
• fluoridation. Declan Waugh,
• fluoride,
• fluoride sensitivity,
• Sciblogs,
• science fraud

In my last post (Another fluoridation whopper from Declan Waugh) I described how Declan Waugh (a self-professed “scientist and fluoride researcher”) badly misrepresented data from a Finnish study which had concluded the prevalence of ailments attributed to fluoridation were “likely connected with psychological rather than physical effects of being exposed to fluoridated water.” However, he has … … Continue reading … Read More

Finland's fortunes in balance as Nokia opens Windows - Griffin's Gadgets

Peter Griffin • Feb 17, 2011 •

• Finland,
• microsoft,
• Nokia,
• wp7

Wow, I’d love to be a fly on the wall at the Nokia booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week – well on the wall of the meeting room housing the companies top executives and emissaries from Microsoft, Google and other operating system makers. The Barcelona show is always a colourful one – I’ve … Read More

Key speech highlights high-tech manufacturing - A Measure of Science

Shaun Hendy • Feb 12, 2010 •

• Finland,
• innovation,
• PhDs,
• priorities

In his speech to Parliament earlier this week, John Key signalled that supporting high-tech manufacturing would be a priority for his Government.  As my colleague Richard Blaikie, Director of the MacDiarmid Institute, pointed out in his newsletter last week to MacDiarmid Institute researchers, New Zealand is becoming increasingly reliant on high-tech industry for our export receipts: New Zealand’s high-tech … Read More

What is a karonkka? - A Measure of Science

Shaun Hendy • Nov 05, 2009 •

• Finland,
• PhDs

I’m on my way to Helsinki at the moment to examine a Finnish PhD thesis. The University of Helsinki PhD exam is quite different from its New Zealand counterpart. To start with the thesis itself is a merciful 40 pages, although it is accompanied by 6 refereed journal articles. Overall the body of work is roughly comparable to a good … Read More

The New Zealand skills deficit - A Measure of Science

Shaun Hendy • Oct 16, 2009 •

• Finland,
• graduates,
• patents,
• PhDs

In 2006, 640 students  graduated with PhDs at New Zealand universities, compared to only 400 in 1998. The graph on the right shows how this growth in student numbers has been shared among the disciplines. While the number of graduates in science and applied science has grown modestly, most of the growth has come from outside of the … Read More

Networks of inventors - A Measure of Science

Shaun Hendy • Sep 28, 2009 •

• Finland,
• innovation,
• networks,
• patents

Over the last six months I’ve been studying an OECD patent database with a research assistant, Catriona Sissons. The goal of our project is to study the economic geography of innovation in a quantitative manner. One of the things we have investigated is whether collaborative networks form between inventors through co-patenting. To find co-patents between inventors we use European Patent … Read More