William Waldegrave's call for opinions on the future of science, in anticipation of his White Paper, due to be published next year, has produced two cries for help. Both the Royal Society and the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) have produced reports for the UK science minister's perusal.
The ABPI report calls on the government to halt the decline in state spending on science in order to put Britain on a par with other nations in health spending. The group says that the UK government contributes a smaller percentage to R&D in higher education than any of 13 other industrialised countries. The report's author, Mike Hall says: 'We're actually …
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