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It’s the little things
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26/08/2008
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When it was published in 2002, the Taylor Report highlighted a number of key obstacles to the successful exploitation of nanotechnology in the UK, along with recommendations on how these might be overcome.
The Taylor Report – more formally ‘New Dimensions for Manufacturing: A UK Strategy for Nanotechnology’ – recognised that investment in nanotechnology was increasing rapidly both academically and, in some countries, industrially. The UK needed to keep up, it said.
The Report found a willing audience in Government and Lord Sainsbury, then Science Minister, allocated £90million for the Micro and Nano Technology Manufacturing Initiative between 2003 to 2009; one third of which was allocated to collaborative R&D, with the remainder targeted at capital infrastructure.
Yet in 2007, the Council for Science and Technology (CST) – leading adviser to the Government on science and technology – expressed the fear that Britain may have started to fall behind.
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Author
Graham Pitcher
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