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Technology

Answer

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

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

9310

Session

2015-16

Related items

Technology
Tuesday, 7 July 2015
Written questions
House of Commons

Subjects

Government assistance Technology Regional Growth Fund

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