Science policy UK: Government Office for Science report 2013-2014

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The UK Government Office for Science, headed by Sir Mark Walport, has published its 2014 annual report.  It covers the functions of the office, including the key workstreams for 2013-14:

  • science, big data, analytics and the City [of London] - creating a new alignment [use of big data in finance]
  • opening up scientific research data [G8 and open data]
  • Alan Turing Institute [UK research capabilities in data science]
  • Climate change; science and communication [there was also a House of Commons committee report on this in 2013]
  • Chief Scientific Adviser's forthcoming report on innovation, risk and regulation
  • security
  • flooding
  • horizon scanning [there was another parliamentary committee report on this as well]
  • foresight - manufacturing, city futures, demographic change, ageing society, computer trading in financial markets, and migration and global environmental change.
Organizations: 
Government Office for Science
House of Commons Science and Technology Committee
Themes: 
Science policy
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