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DIGITAL ECONOMY
EPSRC leadAHRCESRCMRC
ENERGY
EPSRC leadBBSRCESRCNERCSTFC NANOSCIENCE
THROUGH ENGINEERING TO APPLICATION
EPSRC leadBBSRCESRCNERCSTFCMRC
LIVING WITH ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
EPSRC BBSRCESRCNERC leadSTFCMRCAHRC
AGEING: LIFE LONG HEALTH & WELLBEING
EPSRC BBSRCESRCNERCSTFCMRC leadAHRC
RESPONDING TO GLOBAL CHALLENGES
GLOBAL THREATS TO SECURITY
EPSRC BBSRCESRC leadNERCSTFCMRCAHRC
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EPSRC 2004-05 to 2010-11 EXPENDITURE
£0M
£200M
£400M
£600M
£800M
£1,000M
2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11
Budget Full economic costs £795M£815M £843M Plans include:
• Our priority themes
• ETI
• Target for TSB collaboration
• RCUK priority themes
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THE EPSRC CONTEXT
EPSRC Delivery Plan 2008/09 to 2010/11
November 2007
Polaris HouseNorth Star AvenueSwindon, SN2 1ET01793 444000www.epsrc.ac.uk
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• Increase focus on the key challenges for society • Encourage even more ambitious and transformative research in a healthy research base
• Attract and nurture talented and skilled people
• Work with all partners to more effectively translate/understand how research can contribute to solving the challenges facing society
• Realign our own internal organisation to deliver our goals most effectively
EPSRC GOALS 2008-11
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Living with environmental change (£9M)Global threats to security (£6M)Ageing: life-long health and wellbeing (£11M)
THE WHOLE EPSRC PICTURE
Values are commitment 2008-11
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THE NEW EPSRC ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE
RESEARCH BASE
Public Engagement
Physical Sciences
Materials, Mechanical & Medical Engineering
Process, Environment & Sustainability
Cross-Disciplinary Interfaces
Research Infrastructure
& InternationalInformation & Communications
Technology
Mathematical Sciences
Programmes
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Programmes
THE NEW EPSRC ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE
BUSINESS INNOVATION
Digital Economy
Nanoscience through Engineering to
Application
Energy
Towards Next Generation Healthcare
User led Knowledge and Skills
User led Research
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ESSENTIAL PLATFORM FOR A HEALTHY RESEARCH BASE
Longer term international quality research to provide a vibrant and sustainable research environment able to respond to future challenges
Key strategies:• Supporting transformative research• Community-led challenges• More ambitious and flexible programmes of
research for leading edge groups• Signposting strategic areas• Encouraging user collaboration
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SECURING THE FUTURE SUPPLY OF PEOPLE
Supporting talented people at all stages of their careers to ensure the UK has the people to support a healthy research base and economy
Key strategies:
• Increased use of centre based approaches to align with strategy and to strengthen the international competitiveness of UK PhD
• Restructured fellowship scheme and alignment in part with focused themes
• Meeting users’ training needs
• Attracting the next generation of researchers
• Early stage career support
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TOWARDS BETTER EXPLOITATION
An emphasis on excellence with impact and the importance of people, to achieve the vision: “for the UK to be equally renowned for KT and innovation as it is for research discovery”
Key strategies: • Increase business-focused skills development/postgraduate training
• Accelerating the exploitation of research outputs to enhance business pull and address societal grand challenges
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Universities
KNOWLEDGE AND THE MARKET PLACE
Discovery
Understand Adapt/Integrate Validate Deploy
Industry and business
Exploitation
HEIF
Initiation
Application
EPSRC
ETI, TSB and other KT stakeholders
Timescale to market in years; typically 5-20
Invent
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CONCLUSIONS• The major feature of our plans is the identification of key priority themes
addressing important societal challenges
• All research disciplines have an important role to play in these themes
• The largest proportion of our budget is spend on investigator-led research and training
• We want to encourage researchers to be more ambitious
• Need for us all to demonstrate the wider impact of science and engineering research on society and the economy
• As a framework university you are a key stakeholder - we need to work together align our strategies
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ISSUES FOR DISCUSSION
• How can you help us realise these goals? Focus on the key challenges? More ambitious research? Reviewers?
• How can we work together to demonstrate impact? Of additional FEC funding? Of science and engineering research on society?
• What are the major drivers/forces you are considering as you
develop your strategy?