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What the UK government should do about science and innovation

I have a new post up at the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute’s blog – Rebuilding the UK’s innovation economy. It’s a more tightly edited version of my earlier post on Soft Machines with the same title.

Author Richard JonesPosted on November 12, 2014Categories General, Science policy

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Richard Jones is a soft matter physicist and commentator on science and innovation policy.  The views expressed on this blog are written entirely in a personal capacity.

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Longer reads: Science and innovation policy for hard times: an overview of the UK’s Research and Development landscape

A survey of the UK’s R&D landscape, in the context of the big strategic challenges the UK state currently faces.

Science and innovation policy for hard times: an overview of the UK’s Research and Development landscape.

Longer reads: on the UK’s regionally unbalanced R&D landscape


“Innovation,

The Missing 4 Billion: making R&D work for the whole UK. A report by Tom Forth and Richard Jones, for NESTA:

The Missing 4 Billion

Longer reads: on innovation, R&D and the UK’s productivity crisis


“Innovation,

Two working papers by Richard Jones, for the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute:

The UK’s Innovation Deficit & How to Repair it

Innovation, research and the UK’s productivity crisis

Longer reads: on transhumanism


“against

Transhumanism: technically wrong, ideologically suspect, and damaging to the way we talk about technology…

A 54 page (free) e-book (PDF) by Richard Jones:
Against Transhumanism: the delusion of technological transcendence

Longer reads: on nanotechnology

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