January 2015
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This seminar followed Government's Science and Innovation Strategy, released in mid-December, which set out Government's long term strategy for science policy and commercialisation of research. This conference brought together key policymakers with stakeholders central to the strategy's implementation to discuss the likely impact of the proposals and the challenges for putting policy into practice.
Sessions focused on priorities for public spending on science and scientific infrastructure and followed the announcement, in the 2014 Autumn Statement, of £5.9 billion to be spent on new capital projects between 2016 and 2021. Delegates also discussed efforts to boost private investment in R&D and further steps Government can take to support business and university collaboration to increase the commercialisation of UK research, with discussion informed by the Hauser Review of Catapults Centres, which called for the extension of the Catapult network to 30 centres by 2030. Further sessions examined the impact that Government's focus on 'eight great technologies' has had so far and the next steps for developing these technologies in the UK.
