Foresight : first progress report, 1996.

  • Great Britain. Office of Science and Technology.
Date:
1996
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Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: Foresight : first progress report, 1996. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Government hopes that by working with all the various partners noted above, awareness of the Foresight reports and network building will penetrate to more and more businesses. Further consideration is being given to how this process might be best reinforced. ING S&T TO INCREASE MPETITIVENESS AND ALITY OF LIFE 27. The goal here is to link the Science Base, Government Departments and industry through joint investments in wealth creating and quality of life programmes in science, engineering and technology. The Steering Group report pointed to 6 priority fields as having long range competitive potential in terms of markets, strong scientific capabilities in the UK and pervasive effects across the economy and society. The fields are: - harnessing the future power of communication and computing technologies; - building new products and processes from the expansion of biological and genetic knowledge; - improving the range, flexibility and quality of materials; - securing high standards of products and services through sensor and automation technologies, business processing and managements systems; - securing a cleaner world through the development and application of environmental sciences, and technologies for pollution control, clean processing and clean energy, and product life cycle analysis; and - applying knowledge of social trends and social factors to the better understanding of markets, risks perception and the human impact of new technology.