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Fifteen million people have been vaccinated against Covid on time. Here are thirty more fields in which Britain leads the world.

The success in procurement and distribution prompts the question of what else we are outstandingly good at.

By Andrew Gimson | 17 February 2021 | 17 comments

“We have been terrific at pure research, and useless at translational research.” What our industrial strategy should aim to change.

The best way of thinking about it isn’t to fix one’s gaze on direct subsidies, but to look wider – at our failure to turn British ideas into British prosperity.

By Paul Goodman | 12 February 2021 | 36 comments

Will Tanner: Covid and vaccines. Imagine what would have happened if we’d junked intervention – and opted instead for laissez faire.

The first piece in a ConHome mini-series this week on industrial strategy after the pandemic.

By Will Tanner | 9 February 2021 | 20 comments

Chris Skidmore: Britannia Unchained revisited. How to build on vaccine success – and make Britain a science superpower

The Prime Minister is right to put research and development at the heart of his plan to build back.

By Chris Skidmore MP | 2 February 2021 | 31 comments

George Freeman: The industrial strategy reforms I led helped to deliver Britain’s vaccine success. Now for the next phase.

I’m delighted to have been asked to help set up the new Taskforce for Innovation and Growth through Regulatory Reform.

By George Freeman MP | 1 February 2021 | 18 comments

Chris Skidmore: It’s freedom that will make Britain a global science superpower – not Whitehall micro-management

In spite of Cummings’ departure, DARPA should remain a manifesto priority: we need its approach to risk – and indeed failure.

By Chris Skidmore MP | 23 December 2020 | 26 comments

WATCH: ‘It is no part of our culture, or our ambition’ to make the Covid-19 vaccine mandatory

The Prime Minister fields questions from all sides about the practical and ethical issues surrounding the rollout.

2 December 2020 | 20 comments

Neil O’Brien: The plans we must make now to ensure that our ship doesn’t hit the rocks

These are my starters for ten – so it’s over to you. What are the biggest choices? What are the problems that we have to get ahead of to keep afloat?

By Neil O Brien MP | 16 November 2020 | 106 comments

Neil O’Brien: Here are three urgent responses to China’s growing power – which we will soon have an opportunity to make

The Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy gives us the chance to act coherently and effectively.

By Neil O Brien MP | 19 October 2020 | 17 comments

Neil O’Brien: Introducing the new Levelling Up Taskforce – and its first report on how we can measure progress

So how do we get more good, high-paying jobs into poorer areas? One specific opportunity relevant in a lot of Red Wall seats is advanced manufacturing.

By Neil O Brien MP | 7 September 2020 | 61 comments

Morgan Schondelmeier: State-directed research is no substitute for the marketplace of ideas

The Government is proposing to plough £800 million into copying an idea the US abandoned decades ago. It won’t work.

By Morgan Schondelmeier | 14 August 2020 | 140 comments

Tris Dyson: Challenge prizes can incentivise British breakthroughs and new British industries

The Government has huge ambitions for UK science and innovation. Rethinking how to motivate inventors will take the country far.

By Tris Dyson | 15 July 2020 | 26 comments

Neil O’Brien: No, more economic prosperity doesn’t depend on more social liberalism

I hesitate to disagree with Daniel Finkelstein, but city growth has been powered more by smalltown commuters than flat-cap wearing uber-boheminans.

By Neil O Brien MP | 13 July 2020 | 27 comments

Alan Mak: Reform capital allowances and R&D tax credits to fire up investment and create jobs

This is the second in a three-part series on how to boost our economy after Coronavirus.

By Alan Mak MP | 1 July 2020 | 11 comments

Neil O’Brien: Like fax machines, pagers and your old macarena CD, it’s time to bin the 1990s

The ideas of that decade are still with us, staggering around like a zombie in a garish “Global Hypercolor” t-shirt.

By Neil O Brien MP | 15 June 2020 | 49 comments

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