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Alistair Darling (photo by the Sun) In December the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, announced that he would make cuts of £600m in funding for higher education, research and science by 2012. Shortly afterwards the Science and Technology Facilities council announced a range of cuts in experimental programmes. The number of students funded to [...]  In this article in Businessweek Sami Mahroum says that ‘during economic downturns, innovation is the single most important condition for transforming the crisis into an opportunity’. He argues for active government intervention to boost innovation. ‘In the short term, governments need to provide support to small companies to help them manage the crisis and continue to [...] The UK Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) has recently issued a White Paper on how the government plans to help the UK ‘excel at all types of innovation.’ You can download the press release, the executive summary or the full report (all 98 pages). The role of the Department is ‘to champion innovation across the [...] |
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