Research is useless, innovation is gold

Most agree that it’s worth knowing more about the world and everything in it. Research, in that sense, is intrinsically valuable.But for pragmatic governments, intrinsic scientific or scholarly worth is useless, what they value is its contribution to society, Gavin Moodie writes.
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SolidWorks 2014 launches in Australia

Being close to and understanding customers are important to any business. SolidWorks - owned by French software giant Dassault Systemes - takes this to the extreme, and claims that nine tenths of the changes made for its 2014 suite of products have come from users’ suggestions.
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