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- Foreword from the Secretary of State
- Joint foreword from the Government Chief Scientific Adviser and the National Technology Adviser
- Introduction
- 1. Developing and deploying critical technologies
- 2. Signalling UK strengths and ambitions
- 3. Investment in research and development
- 4. Talent and skills
- 5. Financing innovative science and technology companies
- 6. Procurement
It is just one year since the Prime Minister took the bold decision to create the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to help unleash the power of UK research and development, helping grow our economy, create better jobs, and make bold discoveries which will enable us to live longer, healthier, happier lives.
A thriving UK science and technology system remains critical for our future prosperity, security, and the health of our citizens. The dizzying pace of technological advancement confirms this, whilst it demonstrates the potential of advancement to boost productivity and transform our sectors, it also highlights the importance of making innovation safe, secure, responsible, and trustworthy to fully benefit from the opportunities it brings.
Moving at warp speed, last March I launched the UK’s Science and Technology Framework to provide the plan for the UK to bring together activity across government focused on a single mission: to cement the UK as a science and technology superpower. The evolving context makes the goals and vision we set out even more salient and reinforces the need for an enduring approach that takes us through to 2030.
Led by DSIT, with collaborative delivery across government, we have already made substantial gains. We have set the approach for each of our five critical technologies, with significant investment that will build UK capability. Across the wider system we continue to focus on cultivating the right environment for these technologies and our science and technology sectors more generally to flourish.
•Public spending on R&D is at the highest ever level, and we are fulfilling our commitment to spend £20 billion across the next financial year with every £1 of public expenditure leveraging double the amount of private investment.
•We have launched new policy initiatives to support our innovative science and technology companies to grow and scale, including the Mansion House reforms for the pension market to boost returns, and improve outcomes for pension fund holders; increase funding liquidity for high-growth science and technology companies; and help companies grow and list in the UK. Our Venture Capital fellowship will inspire a new generation of science and technology venture investors.
Professor Dame Angela Mclean, Government Chief Scientific Adviser.
Dr Dave Smith, National Technology Adviser.
The story of how science and technology can change, enrich, and improve our lives is written every day. Game-changing scientific innovations have improved prosperity and wellbeing, whether through advances in engineering biology, increased industrial productivity through artificial intelligence, or simply enhancing our knowledge of the world and our place in it.
The UK’s R&D ecosystem is built upon a brilliant foundation of world-class innovators, universities, public sector research establishments, and industrial labs that are fundamental to helping us achieve our science and technology superpower ambition. However, we also need to support the full innovation cycle so that this great science can be turned into commercial technologies, scaled up, and drive growth so that our society can reap the benefits of the resulting products and services..
The Science and Technology Framework is the principal vehicle helping the whole of government deliver this strategic intent. It signals our long-term vision of how funding and policy will support and promote our valued science and technology communities across industry, government, and academia. Through the Science and Technology Framework we will continue to inspire confidence that the UK government is wholly committed to translating science and innovation into products and services that support our growth and prosperity, and that we are willing to invest in and develop this capability.
We have also seen the government accept recommendations from the Pro-innovation Regulation of Technologies Review, so that regulation can support key areas of growth, and committed to creating a pro-innovation culture across the UK’s public sector through the Public Sector Productivity Review.
We know that scientific and technological advances drive growth and prosperity, create jobs, ensure our security, and enhance the health and wellbeing of our citizens and our environment. The Science and Technology Framework acknowledges this, placing science and technology at the heart of government ambition and aligning government levers towards cultivating the right environment in our science and technology system for innovation to take place, new businesses to spin out and scale, and our science and technology sectors to flourish.
In recent months, we have seen sustained and rapid technological development and an increase in global competition. The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) presents a transformative opportunity, but also highlights the need for domestic and global action to ensure safe and responsible use. Semiconductors remain a crucible of fierce competition and we are witnessing huge, state-backed investments, tax incentives, and export restrictions across multiple continents, with far reaching consequences. We also know that social and behavioural science, as well as humanities disciplines such as history and ethics, have an important role to play in the development, deployment, and the adoption of technologies, from responsible innovation to understanding real-world uses and impacts. In this context, achieving strategic advantage through science and technology means building a reputation for safe, trustworthy, and responsible innovation and technology.
Across the past year we have taken significant steps to implement the Science and Technology Framework. This includes developing action plans for each of the ten strands and, spearheaded by the various lead departments, ensuring comprehensive delivery of the plans, supported by government, industry, and academic engagement.
The creation of DSIT has brought together and streamlined our responsibility for our science and research and development (R&D) activities with our support for our technology -enabled sectors. Creating a single department, engaged with the full breadth of the science and technology system, including through UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), has broadened our capabilities, and allowed us to expand our ambition in the delivery of key areas of the Science and Technology Framework.
This update captures the breadth of our progress across the Framework strands highlighting key activities, case studies, and our next steps, as part of a system-wide approach, delivered across and by the whole of government. This is why the vision for each strand remains the same as those set out in the Science and Technology Framework published in 2023.
The Framework is and remains a cross government approach to science and technology activity delivered through collaboration across departments. For example, our Life Sciences Vision is the result of collaborative work between the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) and DSIT. Similarly, the Long-term Investment for Technology and Science (LIFTS) initiative is being delivered by the British Business Bank, following cross-government policy design and market engagement work undertaken by HM Treasury (HMT), the Office for Investment (OfI) and the Department for Business and Trade (DBT).
Lead department: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Vision: The UK has a track record of defining, pursuing and achieving strategic advantage in prioritised areas of science and technology application to deliver prosperity and security for the UK on our own terms and deliver benefits to global society. The UK’s foundational science base is world-leading and broad, giving us the agility to rapidly advance discoveries and technologies as they emerge.
Our five critical technologies – AI, engineering biology, future telecommunications, semiconductors, and quantum technologies – were selected for their ability to build strategic advantage, create opportunities for growth, and capitalise on existing UK strengths. We have now published ambitious plans for each, and as a result, have amended the title of this strand to reflect our focus moving from identification to the delivery, development, and deployment of these technologies.
In AI, we have announced £1.5 billion of investment in compute in the past year, and shown global leadership through our AI Safety Summit, the launching of the AI Safety Institute, and publishing the AI regulation white paper [pending publication] and consultation response. Over the next 10 years we have committed: £2.5 billion for quantum technologies and announced 5 Quantum Missions to realise the ambitions of our National Quantum Strategy; up to £1 billion on semiconductors; and £2 billion for engineering biology. We have initially committed up to £100 million on future telecommunications by end of financial year 2024/25 and are committed to supporting future telecommunications R&D in the long term.
We are exploring how we maximise our investment within the critical technologies by considering the impact of cross-technology interventions in skills, infrastructure, data access, and regulatory change, as well as investment and shoring up our access to the next generation materials essential for maintaining and growing our strategic advantage. We are also drawing on the UK’s world-class capabilities in the social and behavioural sciences, as well as the humanities, to help shape how critical technologies are developed and deployed, strengthen public engagement and protection, and improve our ability to foresee unintended consequences.
To support the commercialisation and deployment of these critical technologies, we have launched the UKRI Technology Missions Fund and continue to take a tailored approach to each technology, working with feedback from industry. We have announced an application focused challenge fund for future telecommunications, a pilot incubator for semiconductor companies, and regulatory sandboxes for engineering biology that will help tackle regulatory challenges and opportunities. There is an enabling role played by technologies like advanced materials and robotics in ensuring the success of our critical technologies. We also work to embed cyber security into these critical technologies, by applying our ‘Secure by Design’ principles, as set out in the National Cyber Strategy.
Lead department: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Vision: Domestic and international recognition of the UK’s strengths and ambitions in science and technology ensures that all stakeholders have the confidence to invest their time, money and effort supporting our science and technology vision. There is a sense of shared common goals, and citizens trust that science and technology can improve their lives.
Building on the publication of the Science and Technology Framework, we have ensured that our communications clearly, credibly, and consistently articulate the UK’s strengths and priorities – providing stakeholders with the confidence to invest in the UK.
The creation of DSIT has provided a major opportunity to strengthen the UK’s science and technology story, to meet our 2030 ambitions. This in turn supports building a sense of shared success, giving the public the confidence to utilise advances in science and technology, and promoting the strength of the UK’s science and technology system internationally.
We have:
•Utilised key communications moments to promote the UK’s science and technology abilities. This includes launching critical technology strategies such as the National Semiconductor Strategy; hosting the UK’s second Global Investment Summit, which resulted in £29.5 billion of new investment in the UK; showing support for the technology sector at London Tech week; and helping the UK lead the global conversation at the world’s first AI Safety Summit last November, with significant worldwide interest.
Lead department: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Vision: The UK’s R&D investment matches the scale of the science and technology superpower ambition, and the private sector takes a leading role in delivering this. Delivery under the Science and Technology Framework catalyses private sector R&D and boosts the innovation activity of firms, leading to UK economic growth.
In the past year we have targeted record levels of R&D investment, aimed at improving lives, creating jobs, and driving growth. This investment is building and maintaining a more effective research system to deliver on our national priorities. We have taken action to support our 2030 objectives of reducing bureaucracy and to set out our vision of how to foster a UK research, development, and innovation organisational landscape that is diverse, resilient, and attractive to investment. We are now focused on making this vision a reality.
We have:
•Maintained - our commitment to progress towards total government investment in R&D reaching £20 billion per annum by financial year 2024/25, the largest ever increase over a Spending Review period.
•Agreed the UK’s association to Horizon Europe and Copernicus, meaning UK researchers and businesses can participate confidently in the world’s largest programme of research cooperation, worth more than £80 billion. We also supported over 3,000 UK researchers and innovators with over £1.5 billion of funding through the Horizon Europe Guarantee scheme ensuring the UK could continue to participate in the world’s largest research and innovation programme.
Lead department: Department for Education
Vision: The UK has a large, varied base of skilled, technical, and entrepreneurial talent which is agile and quickly responds to the needs of industry, academia, and government. This includes talent in STEM, digital and data, commercialisation, and national security.
Technological breakthroughs are driven by human endeavour. We have focused on establishing the bodies, institutes, and long-term domestic and international approaches critical to meeting our 2030 ambitions. These organisations and approaches span the breadth of school to high-level doctoral and professional training, including enabling an agile skills system by articulating skill gaps; supporting the recruitment and retention of school teachers in STEM subjects; and creating opportunities for people to train, retrain, and upskill to respond to changing needs.
We are working with industry to understand the requirements for the workforce of the future and developing an approach to skills that supports each of the critical technologies. Underpinning this, we will take forward the Advanced British Standard, a new qualification framework combining A levels and T Levels that will see core maths education continued to 18.
We have:
•Announced the Advanced British Standard, a new qualification framework for 16 to 18 year olds bringing together A levels and T Levels, through which all students will continue studying maths up to the age of 18.
Lead department: HM Treasury
Vision: There is sufficient supply of capital at all stages with increased participation from domestic investors, and an environment to grow and scale large globally competitive science and technology companies that drive growth in the economy and high-skilled employment opportunities for citizens.
We have made bold changes to narrow the financing gap for science and technology companies by ensuring our companies can access the finance they need to grow and scale in the UK, at all stages of their growth, from seed stage through to listing.
We have made significant progress on our 2030 outcome of increasing the supply of institutional investment to deepen the pool of domestic capital. The Mansion House Reforms, announced in July 2023 and continued at Autumn Statement, are designed to boost returns, and improve outcomes for pension fund holders; increase funding liquidity for high-growth science and technology companies; and help companies grow and list in the UK.
We are now working at pace to implement these reforms, as well as developing a wider finance ecosystem so that it is capably of nurturing the next generation of science and technology companies, for example through increasing investor skills and supporting spinouts.
We have:
Lead department: Cabinet Office
Vision: government departments create a demand for innovation that can catalyse their buying power into economic growth. Departments clearly articulate their technology needs through long-term strategies to give businesses confidence to invest and shape markets, with a proportion of departmental spend dedicated to procurement supporting innovation.
We know that public procurement is a powerful lever to drive innovation nationally and nurture creativity and growth in local business communities.
Our ambition is to optimise the commercial environment by articulating the government’s innovation needs and challenges so that it is easier for businesses of all sizes to apply for public funding. The Procurement Act 2023 is a foundational first step in bringing about a cultural change that will make this a reality. It will build capability to connect government and industry, allowing us to form partnerships with innovative high-growth firms as well as strategically pulling through current and future innovations.
We have:
•Received Royal Assent of the Procurement Act 2023, which will: require larger contracting authorities to publish future procurement ‘pipelines’ and needs, so that suppliers of all sizes, particularly start-ups, scale-ups and small businesses, can prepare bids either individually or in consortia; and require contracting authorities consider and respond to the barriers for SMEs, to attract science and technology businesses to bid and enter public sector markets.
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1. Also called: separate. a reprint of an article that originally appeared as part of a larger publication. transitive verb. 2. to reprint separately, as an article from a larger publication.
An offprint is a separate printing of a work that originally appeared as part of a larger publication, usually one of composite authorship such as an academic journal, magazine, or edited book. [1][2][3] Offprints are used by authors to promote their work and ensure a wider dissemination and longer life than might have been achieved through the ...
There is one meaning in OED's entry for the verb offprint. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.
3 days ago · offprint. Definitions of offprint. noun. a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication. synonyms: reprint, separate.
