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This paper explores the interplay of factors that produce specific local patterns of interaction between firms and universities, using survey evidence from a comparative study of two e´lite locations, the Oxford and Cambridge regions. It uses these examples to examine why innovating firms have external links, why they have them with universities, which spatial mechanisms are significant in the place-specific technology transfer links universities have with firms in their immediate hinterlands, and what kinds of institutional factors influence the form links take. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Europe in recent years, there has been recognition of the need to better understand the risk from groundwater flooding. This recognition has been due both to the occurrence of major flooding events clearly attributable to groundwater and the inclusion of groundwater flooding in European and national legislation. The case study of the city of Oxford on the River Thames flood plain in UK is used to examine the mechanisms for groundwater flooding in urbanised flood plain settings. Reference is made to an extensive data set gathered during a major flood event in 2007. Groundwater flooding of a significant number of properties is shown to occur in areas isolated from fluvial flooding because of high ground created historically to protect property and the transport network from flood inundation. The options for mitigating this form of flooding are discussed; measures to increase the rate of conveyance of flood waters through Oxford, designed to reduce fluvial flood risk, have also been recognised as a means for reducing groundwater flood risk within the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the thirty-third list of dates measured at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU) by Oxford University in Oxford, England. It states that such dates include those measured in laboratories funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and English Heritage. Comments on the dates of archaeological and environmental samples are also provided.

The article reports on the Imperial Forestry Institute in Oxford, England. The establishment of a central training institution like this institute is a proof a great development in Forestry training and research although there were several questions discussed by the British Empire Forestry Conference in 1920. The Institute will be a University Institution with the professor of Forestry as its director and under the control of a Board of Governors representing the University. The Institution will be open to qualified students of any nationality although it is intended primarily to serve the needs of Forestry in the British Empire.