UK Lord’s Committee Share Worries Over Nation’s Goal to Become ‘Science Superpower”

The UK Lord’s Committee has released a report that casts doubts over the UK government’s goal of ‘science and technology superpower’. Last year, the government released its 2021 Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy report that solidified these ambitions. The statement from the Lord’s committee lays out areas of improvement and proposes an actionable means to tackle these issues.

According to , “In the report, the Committee pointed to the ‘lack of an overarching plan for the strategic development of UK science and technology’ and that, although the government recognised that the UK cannot be ‘world-leading’ in everything, it has not yet identified the area of science and technology it wants the country to specialise in.”

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(Source: PM Live, August 8th, 2022)