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journal The Journal of The Foundation for Science and Technology fstVolume 22 Number 1 July 2017 www.foundation.org.uk Editorial Professor Robin Grimes: Putting science into diplomacy Implementing an industrial strategy for the UK Professor Graeme Reid: What constitutes an effective industrial strategy for the UK? Dame Ann Dowling: A bold vision is needed for our industrial future Andrew Barker: The practical aspects Anthony Lilley: Bridging the old divides The challenge of raising skills levels Sir Mark Walport: Lifting skills to meet the needs of society and the economy Sir Adrian Smith: The fundamental role of mathematics Dame Judith Hackitt: The view from manufacturing industry Creating smart cities Lord Mair: Taking a smart approach to 21st century infrastructure Dr Tom Saunders: Engaging the citizen in policy making for cities Cllr Peter Marland: The smart city as a place for communities to thrive The impact of demographic and medical trends on society Professor Chris Whitty: The challenges facing the UK’s health and social care systems Sir Robert Lechler: Addressing the challenges to health and social care Professor Marcel Levi: Focussing our efforts on patient needs COUNCIL COUNCIL CHIEF EXECUTIVE Chair Dr Dougal Goodman OBE FREng The Earl of Selborne* GBE FRS Deputy Chairs The Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve* CH CBE FBA FRS FMedSci Dr Mike Lynch* OBE FRS FREng DL President, The Royal Society Professor Polina Bayvel CBE FRS FREng Sir Venki Ramakrishnan PRS FMedSci Sir John Beddington CMG FRS FRSE HonFREng President, Royal Academy of Engineering Sir Leszek Borysiewicz FRS FRCP FMedSci FLSW Professor Dame Ann Dowling OM DBE FRS FREng The Lord Broers FRS FREng President, British Academy Sir Geoffrey Chipperfield KCB The Lord Stern of Brentford PBA FRS The Lord Haskel* President, The Academy of Medical Sciences Dr Julian Huppert Professor Sir Robert Lechler PMedSci Sir David King ScD FRS HonFREng President, The Royal Society of Edinburgh The Lord Krebs FRS FMedSci Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS FRSE FRAS FInstP Sir Rob Margetts CBE FREng President, The Learned Society of Wales The Lord Mair CBE FRS FREng Sir Emyr Jones Parry GCMG FInstP PLSW The Rt Hon Sir Brian Neill Chair, Arts & Humanities Research Council The Rt Hon the Baroness Neville-Jones DCMG Sir Drummond Bone FRSE Sir Paul Nurse FRS FMedSci HonFREng Chair, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Chi Onwurah* MP Sir Gordon Duff FRCP FRCPE FMedSci FRSE The Lord Oxburgh KBE FRS HonFREng Chair, Economic and Social Research Council The Lord Rees of Ludlow OM FRS HonFREng HonFMedSci Dr Alan Gillespie CBE Dr Peter Ringrose Chair, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council The Baroness Sharp of Guildford Dr Paul Golby CBE FREng Sir Adrian Smith FRS Chair, Medical Research Council Dr Graham Spittle CBE Donald Brydon* CBE The Lord Trees Chair, Natural Environment Research Council The Baroness Wilcox Sir Anthony Cleaver HonFREng The Rt Hon the Lord Willetts Chair, Science and Technology Facilities Council Sir Peter Williams CBE FREng FRS Sir Michael Sterling FREng The Lord Willis of Knaresborough Chair, EngineeringUK Malcolm Brinded CBE FREng Honorary Treasurer Chair, Innovate UK Tony Quigley* Phil Smith Honorary Secretary Chair, Steering Board, UK Space Agency Patrick McHugh* Professor David Southwood President, The Science Council Sir Keith Burnett CBE FRS *Trustee The Foundation for Science and Technology 10 Carlton House Terrace FST Journal was redesigned in 2015 by IOP Publishing’s London SW1Y 5AH Design Studio, under the art direction of Andrew Giaquinto. 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Full audio recordings are available on the website Production Editor Simon Napper Layout Simon Clarke Neither the Foundation nor the Editor is responsible for the opinions Sub-editor Judy McBride of the contributors to FST Journal. © 2017 The Foundation for Science and Technology ISSN 1475-1704 CONTENTS journal fstVolume 22 Number 1 July 2017 THE COUNCIL OF THE FOUNDATION Inside front cover journal The Journal of The Foundation for Science and Technology fstVolume 22 Number 1 July 2017 www.foundation.org.uk UPDATE Editorial Professor Robin Grimes: Putting science into diplomacy Government commits to maintain funding for fusion research • Data governance in the 21st century• 2 Implementing an industrial strategy for the UK Professor Graeme Reid: What constitutes an effective industrial strategy for the UK? Dame Ann Dowling: A bold vision is needed for our industrial future Andrew Barker: The practical aspects New threat to ozone recovery EPSRC supports Distributed Ledger Technology projects Anthony Lilley: Bridging the old divides • The challenge of raising skills levels Sir Mark Walport: Lifting skills to meet the needs of society and the economy Sir Adrian Smith: The fundamental role of mathematics Dame Judith Hackitt: The view from manufacturing industry Creating smart cities Lord Mair: Taking a smart approach to 21st century infrastructure Dr Tom Saunders: Engaging the citizen in policy making for cities EDITORIAL Cllr Peter Marland: The smart city as a place for communities to thrive The impact of demographic and medical trends on society Putting science into diplomacy Professor Robin Grimes Professor Chris Whitty: The challenges facing the UK’s health and social care systems 3 Sir Robert Lechler: Addressing the challenges to health and social care Professor Marcel Levi: Focussing our efforts on patient needs IMPLEMENTING AN INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY FOR THE UK What constitutes an effective industrial strategy for the UK? Professor Graeme Reid 6 A bold vision is needed for our industrial future Dame Ann Dowling 8 The practical aspects Andrew Barker 11 Bridging the old divides Anthony Lilley 13 THE CHALLENGE OF RAISING SKILLS LEVELS Lifting skills to meet the needs of society and the economy Sir Mark Walport 16 The fundamental role of mathematics Sir Adrian Smith 19 The view from manufacturing industry Dame Judith Hackitt 21 CREATING SMART CITIES Taking a smart approach to 21st century infrastructure Lord Mair 25 Engaging the citizen in policy making for cities Dr Tom Saunders 28 The smart city as a place for communities to thrive Cllr Peter Marland 30 THE IMPACT OF DEMOGRAPHIC AND MEDICAL TRENDS ON SOCIETY The challenges facing the UK’s health and social care systems Professor Chris Whitty 33 Addressing the challenges to health and social care Sir Robert Lechler 37 Focussing our efforts on patient needs Professor Marcel Levi 39 EVENTS Foundation events held since 20 May 2015 42 INDEX TO VOLUME 21 43 fst journal www.foundation.org.uk July 2017, Volume 22(1) 1 UPDATE Government commits to maintain funding for fusion research The Government has signalled its running costs, which is based at the and is due to end in December 2018. As willingness to maintain research Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in part of this contract, the EU currently collaboration with European partners Oxfordshire. provides around £60 million of funding after the UK leaves the EU by committing The JET project is home to the world’s per year, which represents 88% of JET’s to underwrite UK funding for the Joint largest and most advanced nuclear fusion running costs. European Torus (JET) project, the reactor and has led global efforts to devel- The UK’s commitment to continue Business and Energy Secretary Greg op a clean, safe energy source. It supports funding the facility will apply should the Clark has announced. 1,300 jobs in the UK, 600 of which are EU approve extending the UK’s contract Subject to the EU extending the UK’s highly skilled scientists and engineers. to host the facility until 2020. A discus- contract to host the world-class nuclear The UK’s contract to maintain and sion will then take place on the appropri- fusion facility beyond 2018, the UK has run the JET project is managed by the ate funding split. agreed to underwrite its share of JET’s UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) www.gov.uk/beis EPSRC supports Data governance in the 21st century Distributed Ledger The Royal Society and the British Academy in a timely manner if the overall system have conducted a review on the needs of a of governance for data management and Technology projects 21st century data governance system. data use is to maintain public trust. The Engineering and Physical Sciences The amount of data generated from Two responses are required, say the Research Council is supporting a series of the world around us has reached lev- academies: projects that will explore the potentially els that were previously unimaginable. • a set of high-level principles to transformative opportunities offered Meanwhile, uses of data-enabled tech- help visibly shape all forms of data by Distributed Ledger Technology nologies promise benefits, from improv- governance and ensure trustworthiness in energy, healthcare, banking and ing healthcare and treatment discovery, and trust in the management and use of policy making. EPSRC is committing to better managing critical infrastructure data as a whole; more than £3.6 million of investment, such as transport and energy. • the creation of a body to ‘steward the delivered through the Research Councils To realise the benefits of these new evolution of the governance landscape as UK (RCUK) Digital Economy Theme. applications, societies must navigate a whole’. Such a body would be expected The studies will look at new uses for significant choices and dilemmas: they to conduct expert investigation into digital distributed ledgers. These are must consider who reaps the most ben- novel questions and issues, and to databases which are shared between efit from capturing, analysing and acting enable new ways to anticipate the future multiple parties and have the potential on different types of data, and who bears consequences of today’s decisions.