In February 2001, SBS issued a document entitled Science Policies for the Next Government: Agenda for the Next Five Years, which set out a series of policies needed to support and enhance scientific research and education in the UK, and to strengthen both the links between science and the economy and the place of science in society.
That document inevitably requires updating and supplementing, partly because it did not cover every aspect of science policy and partly because circumstances are continually changing. With this in mind, during the course of the current Parliament, SBS is publishing a series of supplements to our Agenda for the Next Five Years.
The funding of research through the Framework Programmes of European Union
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Mapping the economic returns of R&D in the UK
02 July 2025
This synthesis draws out key policy implications from the findings of a report commissioned by the British Academy and CaSE. The systems-based analysis of the strengths and weaknesses within the UK’s innovation system, ‘From Research to Productivity: A Systems Analysis of UK Innovation Pathways’, was conducted by Cambridge Econometrics.
From Research to Productivity: A Systems Analysis of UK Innovation Pathways
02 July 2025
In 2024, the British Academy and CaSE commissioned Cambridge Econometrics and the Innovation and Research Caucus to conduct this systems-based analysis of the strengths and weaknesses within the UK’s innovation system.
R&D in the 2025 Spending Review
12 June 2025
CaSE’s comprehensive analysis of the measures that impact R&D announced in the 2025 Spending Review
CaSE submission to House of Lords Financing and Scaling UK Science and Technology Inquiry
21 May 2025
CaSE’s response to the House of Lords Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee inquiry into: Financing and Scaling UK Science and Technology: Innovation, Investment, Industry.