Queen's Award Research Articles

Colour Tone Masterbatch wins Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation 2022

On April 21, 2022, masterbatch manufacturer “Colour Tone Masterbatch Ltd” (subsidiary of Luxus Ltd) announced that they have been awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise 2022 in the category Innovation.

The Vampire Lovers and Hammer's Post-1970 Production Strategy

This article firstly examines the artistic and commercial merits of The Vampire Lovers, which was adapted from the Sheridan Le Fanu novella Carmilla. The production of the film was subcontracted by James Carreras at Hammer to Fantale Films, a company established by Harry Fine, Michael Style and Tudor Gates. The article then proceeds by examining various different and competing artistic judgements that have been made about the film, and also the construction of its unusual dreamy atmosphere. It documents both its UK and US box-office performances and goes on to examine Hammer's post-1970 production strategy in more general terms and in relation to the overall financial performance of the company in the period 1967–72, just before and after The Vampire Lovers. Finally, it examines Hammer's receipt of the Queen's Award for Industry in 1968, the effect of its rolling production-line (or ‘pipeline’) model of film-making on the company's general level of profitability, and some of the consequences of Michael Carreras's assumption of managerial control at Hammer after 1970.

Hardide wins Queen's Award for international trade

UK coating technology company Hardide plc has been awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2020.

Profiting from innovation: Evidence from a survey of Queen's Awards winners

Based on a survey of firms that received the Queen’s Award for Innovation, we investigate the use and perceived effectiveness of different appropriability strategies in the context of breakthrough innovations. We find that firms consistently combine formal and informal intellectual property to prevent imitation, and that their strategies can vary over time according to the phase of development of the innovation. Our results are consistent also with the growing body of evidence showing that in several economic contexts informal appropriability mechanisms are more effective than patents.

Mobile veterinary service: an alternative business model

Daniel and Kirsty Forster recently won a Queen's Award for Innovation for a mobile veterinary service on the Isle of Wight. Here they describe what led them to set up...

Innovative island mobile vet.

One of the UK's first mobile veterinary clinics was recently awarded a Queen's Award for Innovation. Mobile Vet was launched on the Isle of Wight in 2013 by Dan Forster and his wife Kirsty, a veterinary nurse.

Anatomy & Physiology Online

This review focuses on Primal Pictures' award-winning, Internet-based product called Anatomy & Physiology (A&P) Online. Over the years, various products from Primal Pictures have been reviewed in the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA), with the July 2012 review of Anatomy.TV being the most recent. Primal Pictures was established in 1991 and recently received the “Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation 2012.” In September 2011, A&P Online was awarded first prize in the Digital and Online Resources category by the British Medical Association (BMA). The company started with the sole purpose of producing a three-dimensional (3D) model of the anatomy of the human body that was as accurate as possible. They have achieved that goal and continue to use their medical and graphical expertise to create numerous educational resources aimed at providing an active learning environment for students, educators, and health professionals. Given the current academic climate shift from lecture-based teaching to more interactive student-centered learning, A&P Online can serve either as the primary information resource or as a supplement for an anatomy and physiology class. Both options enhance the student's learning experience through interactive engagement with the content. Users of Primal Pictures content continue to increase, with the company reporting over 500,000 students at more than 700 colleges worldwide benefiting from their highly interactive resources.

Grim tales about the impact factor and the h-index in the Web of Science and the Journal Citation Reports databases: reflections on Vanclay’s criticism

This paper reflects on the most current and some of the recent contributions of JK Vanclay, focusing on his methods, findings, and criticism about the journal citations reports and the web of science databases, the journal impact factor and the h-index. It is argued and demonstrated that some of the recent papers of the author about scientometric issues, measures and sources show so much demagoguery, ignorance and arrogance, have so much prejudice and bias, so profound errors in using the databases, calculating metrics, and interpreting search results that the papers are very unlikely to be meant as a genuine contribution from an academic who is a graduate of--among others--Oxford University, professor and dean in a respected university, a well-published and well-cited author and a recipient of the Queen's Award (all the above in forest science). The papers are much more likely to serve as props for a staged, mock-up scenario based on slipshod research in an experiment, to illustrate the deficiencies in the processes and in the assessment of scholarly publishing productivity and impact in order to present the idealized solution of Vanclay: using the h-index, portrayed as the Prince, mounted on the shoulder of the White Horse, Google Scholar.

NEWSDESK: Condition-based maintenance technology crosses over from aerospace to renewable energy; New Zwick compression fixture and extended software improves composite testing; Peak NDT receives Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation 2011; Rheology in corrosion protection

NEWSDESK: Condition-based maintenance technology crosses over from aerospace to renewable energy; New Zwick compression fixture and extended software improves composite testing; Peak NDT receives Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation 2011; Rheology in corrosion protection

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Queen's Award recognises Superior Group's outstanding achievements

Queen's Award recognises Superior Group's outstanding achievements

OC Robotics receives Queen's Award for Enterprise in Innovation

OC Robotics receives Queen's Award for Enterprise in Innovation

Promoting enterprise

Angela Wright won the 2009 Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion in recognition of her dedication to instilling entrepreneurial skills in today's young people. Here she writes about her work and receiving this prestigious royal award

Queen's birthday honors and awards include scientists

Queen's birthday honors and awards include scientists

Seal manufacturer receives four Queen's Awards

The AES Engineering Ltd. Group, trading as AESSEAL, has received two Queen's Awards for Industry 2009 for Innovation and Sustainable Development. Separately two further awards have been received by the Northern Irish subsidiary of the company.

Akzo Nobel product wins prestigious Queen's Award

Akzo Nobel product wins prestigious Queen's Award

Excellence in enterprise

Jane Delfino has become the first teacher to be honoured with a Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion. Holly Clift-Matthews reports

Seal manufacturer receives Queen's Award

Seal manufacturer receives Queen's Award

Malvern instruments wins Queen's Award for Enterprise in International Trade

Malvern instruments wins Queen's Award for Enterprise in International Trade

Aesseal wins seventh Queen's Award

Aesseal wins seventh Queen's Award