Technology

(asked on 7th September 2015) - View Source

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2015 to Question 5250, which projects and programmes that have been funded from the public purse since 2010 relate to each of the Eight Great Technologies.


This question was answered on 16th September 2015

The Government identified “8 Great Technologies” in autumn 2012 to highlight key emerging technologies for the UK and increased investment by £600 million to accelerate their application and commercialisation.

The table provides a non-exclusive list of projects and programmes funded by BIS through Research Councils and InnovateUK relating to the “8 Great Technologies” from the time of publication to January 2015.

We do not routinely keep records classifying all publically-funded projects and programmes since 2010 according to the 8 Great Technologies, and it would only be possible to provide this information at a disproportionate cost.

Big Data:

Programme

Area

AHRC

Digital transformations in community research

BBSRC

Bioinformatics and biological resources fund

BBSRC

Big Data Infrastructure projects

BBSRC

Institutes coordination grants

BBSRC

Open Microscopy Environment (with Wellcome trust)

BBSRC

DNA Synthesis 2 capital investment

EPSRC

Capacity increase at Research Data Facility in Edinburgh

ESRC

Administrative Data Research Network

MRC

UK Health Informatics Research Institute

MRC

Capability development to better understand health and disease

MRC

Support to 100,000 Genomes project

NERC

Big Data Capital awards

NERC

Capability increase in JASMIN National Data Community facility

NERC

Environmental Research Workbench

STFC

Energy Efficiency Computing

STFC

Square Kilometre Array computing platform

IUK

Digital Economy Catapult

IUK

Open Data Insitute

IUK, SDTL & Research Councils

Data Exploration Programme

Satellites and Commercial Applications of Space:

Programme

Area

STFC campuses

Space science cluster capacity building

UKSA

National Space Technology Programme

IUK

Satellite Applications Catapult

IUK

Space applications

Robotics and Autonomous Systems:

Programme

Area

EPSRC

Centres of Excellence

EPSRC

Centres for Doctoral Training

EPSRC

Oxford Mobile Robotics Grant

SBRI & IUK

Intelligent Autonomy in the automotive sector

NERC, IUK & DSTL

Capability building in marine autonomous and robotics systems

IUK & EPSRC

Novel demonstration and commercialisation concepts in robotics

Synthetic Biology:

Programme

Area

BBSRC, EPSRC & MRC

Multidisciplinary Synthetic Biology Research Centres

BBSRC

Seed Funding

BBSRC

Research into DNA Synthesis

BBSRC

Training at Centre for Doctoral Training

IUK

National Biologics Manufacturing Centre

IUK

Synbio Innovation and Knowledge Cetnre and projects

Regenerative Medicine

Programme

Area

MRC, BBRC & EPSRC

UK regenerative Medicine Platform

IUK

Cell Therapy Catapult

Agri-Science

Programme

Area

BBSRC

Innovation Incubator space at Edinburgh

BBSRC

Innovation and diffusion Campus for food and renewable energy at Aberystwyth

BBSRC

Conference centre and shared resources hub

BBSRC

Molecular farming facility at Norwich Research Park

BBSRC, DfID & IS

Agri-tech Catalyst

IS

Innovation Centres

Advanced Materials:

Programme

Area

EPSRC

Research projects

EPSRC

Advanced Materials for healthcare

SPSRC & DECC

Irradiated materials investment in National Nuclear User Facility

STFC

Advanced materials beamline at Diamond

IUK

National Composites Centre

EPSRC

Research programmes incorporating functional materials

EPSRC, STFC & IUK

Sir Hendry Royce Institute for advanced materials

Energy Storage:

Programme

Area

EPSRC

Grid-scale efficient energy storage

EPSRC, IUK & DECC

Energy Catalyst Fund

EPSRC

Novel solutions for energy storage

IUK

Integrated Energy Challenge

Reticulating Splines