Analysis

Earlier this month the UK Government published the Pioneer Prospectus setting out an alternative R&D programme should the UK not associate to Horizon Europe.

In a guest blog for the BSA, Ben Bleasdale, Director of the Discovery Decade programme, shares some of its latest key findings.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released new estimates of R&D spending by UK Government departments and devolved administrations in 2021.

Last week the Chancellor made a series of announcements as part of the Spring Budget 2023. Below we delve into some of the measures impacting the R&D sector.

Our policy officer Camilla d’Angelo breaks down the long-awaited Independent Review of the UK’s Research, Development and Innovation Organisational Landscape led by Sir Paul Nurse.

The Government has published a Science and Technology Framework which contains 10 actions that the Government will focus on and sets out their vision and ongoing work for each action. We take a look at each action and offer our analysis and thoughts.

Polling shows the challenges facing research advocates—and how they could respond, writes Ben Bleasdale for Research Fortnight

There has been a lot going on in the last couple of weeks in R&D policy but the new Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is not yet a month old. So we’ve decided to take a closer look.

Earlier this week CaSE revealed that buried deep in an innocuous document called ‘Central Government Supply Estimates 2022-23’ was the information that the former Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) had surrendered £1.6bn that was allocated to Horizon Europe and Euratom association back to the Treasury.

Our policy team give their take on the formation of a new governmental Department for Science Innovation and Technology.

Last week George Freeman, the Minister of State for Science, Research and Innovation, gave a speech to the Onward think tank setting out the UK Government’s ‘global science strategy’. Here our policy officer, Camilla d’Angelo, takes a look at his speech and what it all might mean.

Daniel Rathbone and Camilla d’Angelo discuss the latest ONS R&D statistics, and what they might mean for policy and advocacy. The new gross domestic expenditure on R&D (GERD) release shows that the UK has been doing much more R&D than previously thought.