Transcript Council for Science and Technology secretariat

UK Council for Science and
Technology
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Two themes
The CST itself – who we are and
how we operate
Our innovation agenda
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Who we are
• Prime Minister’s top-level independent and
impartial advisory body on strategic science
and technology policy issues
• Focus on longer-term, cross-Government
issues which are identified either by
Government, or by the CST, or both
• Co-chaired by Sir David King – Government’s
Chief Scientific Advisor, and me
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Our Membership
• 17 independent members who are
leaders drawn from academia and
business
• Broad range of academic disciplines and
business backgrounds
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CST Members
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Sir David King
Sir Keith Peters
Sir John Beringer
Professor Geoffrey Boulton
Professor Janet Finch
Andrew Gould
Professor Wendy Hall
Dr Hermann Hauser
Dr Dieter Helm
Professor Alan Hughes
Dr Sue Ion
Dr Rob Margetts
Sir Paul Nurse
Dr Raj Rajagopal
Professor Michael Sterling
Professor Kathy Sykes
Dr Mark Walport
Government Chief Scientific Advisor
President Academy of Medical Sciences
Chair The John Innes Centre
Vice-Principal Edinburgh University
Vice-Chancellor Keele University
CEO Schlumberger Ltd
Southampton University
Amadeus Capital Partners
Oxford University
Cambridge University
ex- Director Technology BNFL
Chair Legal and General plc
President Rockefeller University
CEO BOC Edwards
Vice-Chancellor University of Birmingham
Bristol University
Director Wellcome Trust
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How we operate
• Through networks - leaders from business,
universities, regional organisations,
Government
• Set up sub-groups and hold workshops and
seminars to collect evidence and give
direction
• Each project is sponsored by a Minister
• Three-person Secretariat
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Science and Innovation
G8
Environment
Foresight
Energy
Pensions
China
Education
Horizon
scanning
Health and
biotechnology
Science, technology and
Innovation
India
Security
Trade
Services
Manufacturing
Productivity
EU
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Funding the Science Base
Science Budget 1997 – 2014 (£m)
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R&D to GDP ratio for the UK,
R&D:GDP Ratio
of which
Science Base
1.90%
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0.35%
Other Government Depts R&D
0.31%
Private Sector
1.24%
France
2.20%
Germany
2.51%
USA
2.67%
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Our Innovation agenda
• Recognise the complex set of issues and interactions
• Ensure large Government investment in S&T, skills
and education translate into innovation and wealth
creation
• Need to encourage business to do more R&D
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Our Innovation objectives
• Helping high-technology spin-outs and SMEs be more
innovative and grow
• Connect services companies to the science base
• But recognise that wealth creation through innovation
is not just about levels of R&D spend
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Bridging the valley of death
High tech SMEs
large companies
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Growing spin-outs and SMEs
• Increase their capacity to absorb R&D
• More focused use of public funding
• Better use of public procurement – contracts rather
than grants
• Balancing risk, cost and longer-term benefits in R&D
procurement policy
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Bioscience SMEs
• NHS as a source of major competitive
advantage to the UK
• UK pharmaceutical sector strong
• Biosciences as a growing source of high-tech
start up and SMEs in the UK
• How to bring it all together?
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Connecting Services
companies to universities
• Services represent over 80% of the UK economy
• Poorly connected to the university base and
Government
• But often high value-added businesses eg financial
services and insurance
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CST’s thinking
• Better strategic focus within Government for
services sectors
• Common language and better metrics
• Architecture for knowledge transfer between
services and universities
• Understand interactions between regulation,
competition and innovation
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Contact us
Dr Peter Brooke
Council for Science and Technology
Bay 307 1 Victoria St London
Tel: 0044 215 6518
Email: [email protected]
www.cst.gov.uk
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