Sky News’ Tom Clarke explores whether the UK can become a ‘science superpower’, an aspiration recently raised in the House of Commons by chancellor Jeremy Hunt.
He is joined by chief executive of PUBLIC Daniel Korski, former chief scientific adviser Prof Sir Mark Walport and Zoe McDougall of Oxford Nanopore Technologies.
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We can't even keep the lights on because of the tories clusterfuck mini budget. So no is the answer. We're all doomed.
No
the uk cant be a superpower in any area. it is on a big downward spiral. ben a long time coming.
The UK and innovation hardly go arm in arm. It's just complete nonsense
Leaving 'Horizon' was not a good move by Johnson. Perhaps if we obey international law, they might let us back in.
It’s good to think positively. As a scientist myself, I have seen many talented scientists leave the UK in recent 10 years. This has nothing to do with brexit, but there are huge amounts of work for the government to do to reform the systems if we really want to keep top scientists in the UK
Your mega-factories are fake
with the current govt.? nahh
We can't even produce enough power
Wonderful, all contributions matters. Collective attributes, two hands are better than one. I believe from your ideas Great Britain possibly will become super science as a matter of facts 👏
SillyC**ts valley more like …
Not with all the people who keep voting tories and keep supporting farage though
So they doubled the budget to 20B for a little black box that they pretend will provide all the solutions to our health issues today? The "superpowers" seem to be in utter denial of the godless exploration (and exploitation of taxpayers) of genetics. They are selling us an "alien" future….and the lies prevail, for now.
Is this a mockery?
Mind Begs the Question:
If a Nation – building Concentration Camps
Person of that Nations origin – stays Quiet
If appointed – UK Prime Minister
As UK standing with Fascists,No?
21:32 what does it do?
The question is have we reached the ceiling of growth as I see other upcoming countries making bigger strides in science. Our biggest challenge is human resource
Not if we keep wasting money in Ukraine
Absolutely ridiculous
Big Ideas: Can the UK be a science superpower?
No.
Not with the current system of corruption.
Yes it can.
Maybe domestic science?
Yes it can become technology superpower
It's almost like they think knowledge is something that should be horded and owned only by the uk.
Scientific research and development needs to be by latrial between our allies and like minded individuals who can work together.
If anything we should still be contributing towards the European research projects. Be a world leading contributer not a super power
We need politicians that better understand STEM.
not with UKs hate for immigrants.
I would like to see less group think, virtue signalling and thus obsession with net zero. It’s important, but only at the right pace as it’s far from being an emergency.
We have the talent, the educational institutions and innovative industry but we fail mostly due to poor vision, poor support from government, low pay, brain drains to other countries, too many blocks to get from ideas and discoveries to profit making products. Even if we make a scientific discovery and get enough support to make a product we lack the 21st century management to deliver or scale up. So, for example, our scientists might make a discovery that would enable very small nuclear fusion reactors to be made so every community could have one but We would never follow through and the technology would be sold to a foreign company/country who would go on to dominate in the field. We would find ourselves buying the suitcase fusion reactors from Germany/China/the US instead of making them ourselves.
We need good planning and politics, for the rest, we got everything
The UK has cut itself off from the rest of Europe, science funding that would normally have flooded into the UK is now going elsewhere. Talk about becoming a "science superpower" is simply a distraction from the reality on the ground. Britain can barely heat and feed itself, its infrastructure is crumbling, the NHS is collapsing and the economy is on the brink of meltdown. The only aspect of the UK that's world beating is the amount of food banks we have. Project fear is now project here but Jeremy c**t wants us to continue believing in unicorns.
Trust the 'scientists' guys… these lot are so smart… I mean they studied bs degrees for a while so they must be clever….
With a government grant, my silly walk could have been nuclear. They said it wasn't very silly. Now I have to go on talk shows and opine about things.
Babylon Falling.