New Venture Partners has joined with the Dutch electronics giant to spin off several companies based on technology first developed by Philips Research, with the first collaboration, Liquavista, being announced today.

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Prior to Friedman's Philips Curve research, generally accepted wisdom held that an economy could essentially choose how to trade off inflation with unemployment.

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Prototypes built by researchers at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stanford University and Philips, a Dutch electrical-goods firm, can detect a substance that is present at a concentration of less than one part in a million billion.

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He also moved the firm's headquarters from Eindhoven, Philips's birthplace and the home of its main research laboratory, to Amsterdam, as a signal that the firm's sights were set on the market place and not the oscilloscope.

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Philips Van Heusen Chief Marketing Officer Mike Kelly says that some aggressive research his crew conducted a few years ago showed that when it comes to the psyche of male fashion, the power of both sports and transportation is huge.

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