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UK provides 1 billion dollars for Big Data, Space, Robotics and five other technologies
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There will be:
£189 million for big data
£25 million for space
£35 million for robotics and autonomous systems
£88 million for synthetic biology
£20 million for regenerative medicine
£30 million for agri-science campuses
£73 million for advanced materials
£30 million for energy
We have also committed a further:
£35 million for research campuses
£25 million for the advanced metrology lab
£50 million for transformative equipment and infrastructure
We are also considering a strategic opportunity to partner with the US Department of Energy in the development of small modular reactor technology.
The eight technology programs are:
1. Big data
The UK government invested an extra £150 million in e-Infrastructure in October 2011. This has been followed by a further allocation of an extra £189 million in the Autumn Statement. This will be invested over the next two years in key areas such as: bioinformatics and environmental monitoring.
Our investment in data has also ensured we maintain our leadership in social science. We have invested £23.5 million in the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)–led life study, the most ambitious birth cohort study yet, which will track 100,000 children from birth. The reason it is so ambitious is that it will also link genetic data, environmental data and educational outcome data.
2. Space
The UK Government will be investing an extra £25 million in the further implementation of the technology vision through Phase-2 of the National Space Technology Programme. This £25 million of further investment will meet unmet demand as many excellent projects were not supported in the first phase.
See more and subscribe to NextBigFuture at 2013-01-25 20:01:03 Source: http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/01/uk-provides-1-billion-dollars-for-big.html
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