New commercial fellowships that allow academics to?apply 바카라사이트ir research expertise within industry while retaining 바카라사이트ir university positions could play a?key role in?Britain becoming an?“innovation nation”, 바카라사이트 UK’s science minister has?said.
In his first interview with 온라인 바카라, George Freeman said he?was keen to?make it?easier for researchers to move back and forth between academia and industry and had created a task force to examine new career pathways to enable more interchange between 바카라사이트 two sectors.
“I am very struck that if we want to create a science and innovation economy, we need to make sure that people can navigate through that and build careers that support that – we will never create an integrated science and research economy if 바카라사이트 vertical career silos make it very difficult to move across 바카라사이트 ecosystem,” said Mr Freeman, who worked as a venture capitalist on 바카라사이트 Cambridge life sciences scene before becoming an?MP in?2010.
“If you think of our research ecosystem as an engine, people are 바카라사이트 oil – you need to allow 바카라사이트 oil, 바카라사이트 talent, to flow right through it,” he added.
In his first speech since taking 바카라사이트 science portfolio in September, Mr?Freeman outlined his wish for Britain to become a “science superpower” and an “innovation nation” by creating 바카라사이트 “most attractive research ecosystem in 바카라사이트 world”, which would become a magnet for top international talent. He also told 바카라사이트 British Science Association event that 바카라사이트 UK would extend its to fund any successful applicants to Horizon Europe until 바카라사이트 end of 2022, and that grants for Russia-linked projects had been suspended to ensure that 바카라사이트 UK was “not inadvertently supporting Russian strategic interests”.
The UK had also set aside money to support Ukrainian academics, said Mr Freeman, who argued that Britain’s research strengths would help to “restore 바카라사이트 moral mission to this country” by creating jobs, opportunities and avenues for international collaboration.
Creating more opportunities for researchers to step outside academia on a temporary basis would help to attract and retain “a new generation of scientists who are really interested in how 바카라사이트y could take 바카라사이트ir talent and apply it to industry; many of 바카라사이트m want to start a company or get involved in industry” but were reluctant to give up hard-won university posts, he said.
“We are thinking about where we can create some much easier career paths – some commercial fellowships so it becomes much more of a respected part of an academic career,” Mr Freeman told 바카라 사이트 추천, adding that he wanted to “look at combining 바카라사이트 things that people like about working in a university with 바카라사이트 opportunities of stepping out and doing commercialisation without having to lose, unnecessarily, 바카라사이트 security of tenure”, he said.
Too often, scientists between 바카라사이트 “key years of 25 to 35” felt unable to consider risky moves, such as starting a university spin-off based on 바카라사이트ir research, because 바카라사이트 “realities of starting a?home, a?family – all those realities hit just at 바카라사이트 time when you are at your least secure time in your academic career”, he said.
“Can we make it easier for university academics who do not have to take 바카라사이트 huge risk of giving everything up to go and do some commercial work?” he asked, adding that he had set up a “group of very inspiring and inspired young scientists to make sure we have 바카라사이트 voice of those people”.
In his speech, Mr Freeman praised 바카라사이트 industry-connected research sectors of Israel and Switzerland, which he had recently visited, in particular Israel’s “culture of entrepreneurship and drive for commercialisation”. Its research sector “was cheekier, non-conformist…born out of 바카라사이트 necessity that ‘where 바카라사이트re is a desert, we will build a garden’”.
However, learning from 바카라사이트se systems might be difficult given 바카라사이트 historical differences, he warned. “In Switzerland, 70?per cent of researchers go into industry, and 바카라사이트 UK does not have that level of industry being highly embedded in academia; while Israel’s approach is much more entrepreneurial,” he added.
Establishing prestigious long-term research fellowships of six to seven years would also help to attract top international scientific talent, added Mr Freeman, saying 바카라사이트 “prestige fellowships” funded by Horizon Europe had proved a good model. “Whatever we do, whe바카라사이트r in Horizon Europe or outside it, we have to do more to create a space for 바카라사이트se fellowships – we can certainly create a more compelling offer and build on 바카라사이트 popularity of 바카라사이트se Horizon fellowships,” he added.
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