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“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

Rob Sutton: Government needs advisers. But advisers need competition – not their present monopoly.

The emergency measures enacted to battle Covid have exposed the groupthink of Whitehall’s expert establishment.

By Dr Rob Sutton | 13 December 2020 | 24 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

Eamonn Ives: The Government should be doing all it can to give Britain’s green entrepreneurs a head start

The major industries of the future will be green, clean, and environmentally conscious. Without action we risk jobs, investment, and exports going overseas.

By Eamonn Ives | 6 November 2020 | 25 comments

Rob Sutton: The Coronavirus. We must stop pinning our hopes on a vaccine – and learn to live with it

Continued lockdowns and restrictions assume we will eventually produce one. If the attempt fails, what next?

By Dr Rob Sutton | 14 September 2020 | 136 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

Alan Mak: Britain should champion a new Five Eyes critical minerals reserve system

The Coronavirus pandemic has taught us the importance of supply chain security, whether for PPE or critical minerals.

By Alan Mak MP | 30 June 2020 | 21 comments

Cummings makes the weather as a hard rain falls on Sedwill

Three cheers for three reforms: of the civil service, of Ministers and of one that this Government tends to avoid – of public services.

By Paul Goodman | 29 June 2020 | 241 comments

WATCH: Hancock – ‘I’m sure… that we made the right decisions at the right time’

The Health Secretary disagrees with the suggestion of a SAGE scientist that the Government did not implement lockdown early enough.

7 June 2020 | 89 comments

Join us for our first ever ConservativeHome Live online event with Matt Ridley

Register to put your questions to the best-selling science writer and campaigning peer on Wednesday 10th June.

By Mark Wallace | 5 June 2020 | 20 comments

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