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What are the key policy goals that define the #ScienceSuperpower & #InnovationNation missions, and what are the key reforms needed to deliver them?

What should be the UK's global science strategy beyond Horizon Europe?

In my speech to @ukonward yesterday I set out: The importance of regional innovation clusters to:
📈Levelling Up
💻Innovation Nation
And a commitment 🤝to digitally map these clusters across the UK (2/6)
@michaelgove @CBItweets @andy4wm @BenHouchen @AndyBurnhamGM @MarvinJRees

Back to work for a crucial year for UK Science, Research & Innovation & my core Missions:

🌏 ScienceSuperpower🧑🏽‍🔬
💥Innovation Nation👷🏼

Here are some of the Priorities in the NewYear in-tray:

1. Horizon: continue to push for UK association, alongside a bold GlobalBritain PlanB 2. Research Ecosystem: implementing the Nurse, Grant & Tickell Reviews of the UK Research landscape to
- improve career paths
- reduce bureaucracy
- accelerate decision-making
- boost UK global strengths in attracting top talent in
science🧬 & innovation💥

What is the regulatory dividend of Brexit? For 5 years it's been debated. Now our PM's Taskforce on Innovation Growth & Regulatory Reform #TIGRR makes it clear.
@Conservatives @ConHome @OneNationCons @michaelgove

Thread...(1/20) 2. As Minister for Life Science, after a 15yr career in tech start-ups, I’ve long called for better regulation for UK innovation. That’s why I led the #FreshStart Report in 2014 warning the EU that its bioscience regs risked consigning us to the slow lane. @andrealeadsom