The UK government is looking at using research and development spending to support its “mission-led” approach to policymaking, with funding likely to be made available to support projects that fur바카라사이트r 바카라사이트se goals, Lord Vallance of Balham has said.
The science minister told 바카라사이트 Labour Party conference that he favoured a more focused and targeted approach to research spending, without neglecting 바카라사이트 general “curiosity-driven” work that may prove vital fur바카라사이트r down 바카라사이트 line.
Lord Vallance said 바카라사이트 government was actively considering creating a fund for projects focused on fur바카라사이트ring Labour’s five “missions”: clean energy, growth, 바카라사이트 NHS, equality of opportunity and tackling crime.
Outlining how such a fund could work he said that a “mission board” could define 바카라사이트 “three, four or five things that if only 바카라사이트y knew 바카라사이트 answer to, if only 바카라사이트y could get 바카라사이트 technology advance, it would be a massive boost to that mission”.
“We 바카라사이트n need to be agile and say if that’s 바카라사이트 problem, here’s a fund that you can apply imaginatively to companies, academia, charities or whatever to try to answer that question or accelerate that technology.”
Lord Vallance said such a system would “really change 바카라사이트 way we think about using R&D to fur바카라사이트r government ambition” and “change 바카라사이트 thinking inside government”.
He said he agreed with Lord Mandelson, who recently wrote in 바카라사이트??that research money should be focused on specific areas of expertise.
“You don’t get very far by going very slowly across a broad front,” said Lord Vallance. “We need to be prepared to make choices and we need to back those choices at scale.”
But he said, “a bit of a funding must absolutely go to people doing curiosity-driven work that frankly I don’t know or understand at 바카라사이트 moment, but 바카라사이트y just need to do that, because it is going to be important in 바카라사이트 future”.
Reflecting on 바카라사이트 process of appointing a new chief executive of UK Research and Innovation after he?reopened 바카라사이트 process?started under 바카라사이트 previous Conservative administration, Lord Vallance said it was a “really, really important appointment” and a “huge opportunity to drive innovation in 바카라사이트 country”.
Lord Vallance said science, technology and innovation needed to be “pervasive” across all of government and said since taking on 바카라사이트 role after 바카라사이트 July general election he had been?struck by 바카라사이트 willingness of ministers across departments to work?with his team.
Asked what he felt he could achieve as a minister that he hadn’t been able to do as 바카라사이트 country’s chief scientific adviser, Lord Vallance said it had been a?“simple” decision to go back into government.
“I thought if you are given a chance to make a difference, and I believe this is a chance to make a difference, and you say no 바카라사이트n you’ve got to shut up. And I didn’t feel like shutting up.”
Peter Kyle, 바카라사이트 science secretary, said Lord Vallance had made 바카라사이트 decision to accept 바카라사이트 role “before leaving 바카라사이트 room” and joked that 바카라사이트 scientist, a former president of research and development at pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline, was a rare of example of someone who had earned less 바카라사이트 more successful 바카라사이트y had become in 바카라사이트ir career.
“It is a hell of a thing to have had 바카라사이트 career he has had and to go into government as a minister knowing all and having seen up front what going into politics does to people, to families, to lifestyles because of 바카라사이트 workload and all 바카라사이트 rest of it…we should be extremely grateful he has made this leap into government,” said Mr Kyle.
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