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To what extent should UK funding for science and innovation be focussed?
4 February 2009

A lecture by Lord Drayson of Kensington, Minister of State for Science and Innovation at the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills.

Responses by:

The Lord Drayson, Minister for Science and Innovation, Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
Lord Rees of Ludlow OM Kt PRS, President of The Royal Society
Sir Peter Gershon CBE FREng, speaking on behalf of The Royal Academy of Engineering
Dr Peter Ringrose, Chairman of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and Member of the Technology Strategy Board
Trudy Norris-Grey, Chair, Innovation and Science Committee of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI)

Download transcript of Lord Drayson's Lecture (55KB)

For the answers to questions put to Lord Drayson on this speech by readers of the Today programme site see Qs & As

Event Summary (52KB), The Lord Drayson (55KB), Lord Rees of Ludlow OM Kt PRS (18KB), Sir Peter Gershon CBE FREng (18KB), Dr Peter Ringrose (22KB), Trudy Norris-Grey (16KB)

This discussion appeared in the FST Journal Volume 19, Number 1 (1069KB).