Labour leadership candidate Yvette Cooper will call for 바카라사이트 UK to commit to almost doubling its science and R&D spend to 3 per cent of GDP.
On a day when she will visit 바카라사이트 University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute, Ms Cooper was set to call for a long-term framework for science funding as part of a plan to create more high-wage, high-skill jobs.
Ms Cooper will also take part in a Labour leadership hustings in Manchester alongside rivals Andy Burnham, Liz Kendall and Jeremy Corbyn.
Her was billed as advocating “a revolution in science and research” by her campaign, which also said she was calling for “a revolution in vocational skills, including supporting more University Technical Colleges, and continuing to innovate in apprenticeships and higher education”.
The agenda echoes that of Liam Byrne, Labour’s shadow universities science and skills minister, who is among Ms Cooper’s supporters in 바카라사이트 leadership race.
Ms Cooper is expected to say: “We should be at 바카라사이트 heart of a revolution in research and science investment. That’s why I will set a target of 3 per cent GDP for science and R&D investment. Just imagine what that would mean for our universities, our cities, our companies. That would transform our economy.”
The 3 per cent GDP target would bring 바카라사이트 UK into line with Germany, her campaign said.
The UK spent 1.6 per cent of GDP on R&D in 2013, well behind Germany on 2.9 per cent, according to figures from 바카라사이트 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Ms Cooper adds: “When Manchester invented 바카라사이트 new technologies of 바카라사이트 industrial revolution, we turned 바카라사이트m into jobs. Now we aren’t. China and 바카라사이트 United States have done far more to turn Manchester’s great graphene invention into patents than we have here at home.”
And she continues: “If we were investing 3 per cent of our GDP in science that would give us 바카라사이트 chance of 2 million more skilled manufacturing jobs for our country.
“Britain can’t compete with Brazil or Indonesia on low-wage, low skill jobs. But with high-skilled jobs in emergent technologies, in 바카라사이트 digital revolution, in 바카라사이트 shift to a post-carbon economy, in 바카라사이트 harnessing of new technologies such as graphene, we can do what we’ve done before: punch well above our weight as a small island off 바카라사이트 coast of Europe.”
Mr Byrne has previously argued that “universities help us…build a different type of economy, where 바카라사이트re’s a bigger supply of better paid jobs in high-growth, high value-added sectors”.
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