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The Control & Instrumentation Exhibition, with a 23‐year history, took place at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, 25–27 May 1993. The emphasis, as usual, was on process engineering and sensors in many forms were much in evidence.

A fully automatic milking system has been under development at the Silsoe Research Institute for about seven years. Field trials are planned for the next couple of years. It may then take several more years before the system becomes commercially available.

The business which became Lucas Assembly & Test Systems in 1992 has its origins in a company established in 1930 to deal in garage tools and equipment. It now comprises eight business units and employs 300 people in the UK and 350 in North America. Two factories in the USA, which came with the acquisition of Allen Automated Systems, are situated in and close to Detroit.

The “Inside UK Enterprise” activity of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is part of the Department's “Managing in the '90s” programme. That programme is designed to help firms to adopt a strategic, integrated management approach to the key factors which influence commercial success in today's markets: manufacturing, purchasing, quality, design.

Look at the utilisation of virtual reality for a diverse range of training programmes from bomb disposal training to pager assembly line training. Describes how VR software allows three‐dimensional computer‐generated information to be created in real time and discusses the five main components of a VR system. Outlines an experiment designed to assess whether operators would learn to operate laboratory equipment more successfully in a VR environment of in the real laboratory environment. Concludes that VR training achieves better results than real environment training, is more cost effective and does not tie‐up expensive factory equipment for training purposes.

Within the last two decades, entrepreneurship education has become institutionalized in Germany. It is offered as a stand-alone program or as part of a business degree, combining academic knowledge, practical skills, and personal development to enhance the entrepreneurial success of university graduates. While entrepreneurship education has experienced similar growth worldwide, its emergence in Germany is closely tied to the country’s political and economic developments. The significance of entrepreneurship education for a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem and contemporary economic policy has been instrumental in advancing its academic recognition. This chapter provides a historical analysis of the academization of entrepreneurship in Germany. It explores the recursive and often idiosyncratic processes involving state and financial institutions, companies, and universities that have created, respecified, and mutually reinforced a subdiscipline and field of study. Academic entrepreneurship knowledge successively not only became relevant for starting a business but also for employment within the entrepreneurial infrastructure and beyond. This chapter follows a chronological order, highlighting three key stages in the academization of entrepreneurship education. First, the academic, financial, and political roots (I) of entrepreneurship up until the 1970s. Second, it explores the transformation (II) of entrepreneurship into a viable policy alternative and the challenges faced in establishing complementary research and education in higher education institutions during the 1980s. Finally, it sketches the institutionalization (III) of entrepreneurship as a central driver of government economic policy, allowing for the late bloom of entrepreneurship education and research at universities around the turn of the millennium.