The UK to Launch ‘High Risk’ Science Agency

Science: The UK is to launch a “high-risk” science agency to look for ground-breaking discoveries. Moreover, the company, Aria, will be run along the lines of US identical. So that was instrumental in the creation of the internet and GPS. On the other hand, Aria, which has £800m in the capital for over four years. It will have a “higher tolerance for failure than is normal”, the government said. 

Meanwhile, Labour said the government needed to clarify what the agency would do. The new body – the Advanced Research & Invention Agency (Aria) – would fund “high-risk, high-reward” scientific research, the government said.

Moreover, the amount of capital it will get is a selection of the money force into existing government research bodies such as UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). However, for 2020-21 alone, the government has to assign £10.36bn for its research programmes and bodies. Though, the government said that Aria would help to cement the UK’s position as a global science ability.

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the new agency would drive forward the technologies of tomorrow and by stripping back unnecessary red band. On the other hand, from the steam engine to the latest artificial intelligence technology, the UK is steeped in scientific discovery. Today’s set of challenges – whether disease outbreaks or climate change – need bold, ambitious and innovative solutions.

The man who was to become Boris Johnson’s chief advisor became obsessed with the idea that the UK was giving away its technological crown jewels. Moreover, Science and innovation minister Amanda Solloway said, to rise to the challenges of the 21st Century, we need to equip our R&D community with a new scientific engine – one that embraces the idea that truly great successes come from taking great leaps into the unknown.

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Matthew Fell, CBI UK chief policy director, said the UK had “a unique opportunity to play to its strength” with the news agency, to help create jobs, raise productivity and tackle the biggest challenges facing the country.

Sir Jim McDonald, president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, said: “Engineering is central to an ambitious innovation agency of this kind, forming the bridge between research and innovation to enable technological and commercial breakthroughs.”

Moreover, labour shadow business secretary Ed Miliband said the agency needed to have a clear mandate. And to the subject to Freedom of Information laws, to ensure clarity of funding.

On the other hand, labour has long called for investment in high ambition, high-risk science, he said. Moreover, the government must urgently clarify the mission and mandate of this new organisation. It following strong engagement with the UK’s science base those closest to the work.