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  • Chief Scientific Officer’s Bulletin: May 2012

    The May 2012 edition of the Chief Scientific Officer’s Bulletin is now available.

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  • Charging for non-residential care

    Non-residential care is care, other than in a care home, usually in peoples’, own homes.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Public access to publicly-funded research

    I am very grateful for this opportunity to set out the Government’s approach to accessing and publishing research findings. We are very fortunate…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Public access to publicly-funded research

    David Willetts sets out the benefits of making publicly-funded research free to access.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • More university places to be freed up

    It is expected that a further 35,000 students will now join the pool of unrestricted students which universities can recruit from. In total …

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Clean Energy Ministerial 2012: factsheet

    Summary fact sheet about the Clean Energy Ministerial, taking place in London, 25-26 April 2012.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Support for eco innovators

    £35m for Energy Entrepreneurs Fund £3m for heat storage innovation Online funding navigator launched Detail of…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Greg Barker speech at the launch of REA 'Made in Britain' report

    Thank you for inviting me to attend this event and thanks to RES for hosting - it’s great to see so many renewable energy technologies working…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • New fund to invest at least £40m in UK companies

    The new fund - Notion Capital - is the eleventh, and largest, Enterprise Capital Fund and £62.9m has already been committed to it from the first…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • UK and Japan commit to greater collaboration on space

    One of the key areas for collaboration is on earth observation technology, such as the NovaSAR programme or the Disaster Monitoring Constellation…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Chief Scientific Officer’s Bulletin: April 2012

    Chief Scientific Officer’s Bulletin: April 2012

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  • New chair of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council appointed

    Vince Cable said: “I am very pleased to welcome Paul Golby as chair of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. His high level…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Government procurement reform

    How government procurement could provide better value for money and support the economy.

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  • New Foresight project to explore the future of identity

    'Future of identity' will investigate how changes in technology, geo-politics, demographics and economics over the next 10 years might affect notions of identity.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Editorial Intelligence comment conference: the manufacturing economy

    Speech by Peter Luff, Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Innovation on show from the Centre for Defence Enterprise

    Cutting-edge defence science and technology is being showcased by the Ministry of Defence's Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE).

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • £4 million for innovative solutions to tackle healthcare problems

    The government has announced £4 million of funding for businesses to develop cutting-edge ideas to address some of the biggest health problems of our time.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • £4 million for technological solutions to tackle healthcare problems

    The Department of Health opened two new competitions with up to £2 million of funding each to develop technological and innovative solutions

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Written ministerial statement by the Rt Hon David Willetts: be the 'greenest government ever' for universities

    Statement by the Minister of State for Universities and Science. Explains how the higher education sector demonstrates strong commitment, supported…

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  • Massachusetts Innovation Economies Conference

    Introduction Good morning. May I start by thanking Governor Patrick, and Media Lab’s director, Joi Ito for hosting today’s event. Of course…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government