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Making physics profitable

07 Nov 2007 Hamish Johnston

Physicist Jonathan Flint has been chief executive of Oxford Instruments since 2005 and has embarked on an aggressive plan to double the size of the business. He tells Hamish Johnston that this can only be done by seeking out and commercializing new ideas, many of which come from the physics research community and are channelled through an innovations process that he leads.

Jonathan Flint
In many ways Oxford Instruments is the archetypal physics-based company. What relationship do you ha

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