David Willetts


David Willetts
The Rt Hon. Lord Willetts FRS is the President of the Resolution Foundation. He is Chair of the UK Space Agency and a Board member of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). He served as the Member of Parliament for Havant (1992-2015), as Minister for Universities and Science (2010-2014) and previously worked at HM Treasury and in the No.10 Policy Unit under Margaret Thatcher. He chairs the Foundation for Science and Technology. He is an Honorary Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford and a Visiting Professor at King’s College, London. He serves on the Board of Darktrace. He has written widely on economic and social policy. His book “A University Education” is published by Oxford University Press. A second edition of his book “The Pinch” on fairness between the generations was published in 2019.

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The Eight Great Technologies 10 years on

Download Publication Online Reader David Willetts, former Universities and Science Minister, reviews the progress and outcomes of the “Eight Great Technologies” initiative that was first outlined in a report by Policy Exchange a decade ago, and was implemented during the Coalition Government. The original strategy identified eight key areas: AI and semiconductors (formerly Big Data and Compute), Satellites and Space, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Geonomics and Synthetics Biology, Regenerative Medicine, […]

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