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Visitors to this year’s Cheltenham Science Festival were given the opportunity to share their hopes and concerns about using science technology, including GM, to increase food production and make farming more sustainable.
On Friday 7 June, about 40 members of the public joined the Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts, Director of Innovation at the Soil Association Tom MacMillan, and BBSRC Chief Executive Professor Douglas Kell for an in depth discussion centred around the Government’s forth coming Agri-tech strategy…
£1.82M innovation boost for research in Norwich
Bright ideas from scientists collaborating on the Norwich Research Park could get vital investment towards commercialisation thanks to a new £1.82M 'Proof of Concept' Fund backed by BBSRC and the Norwich Research Park. The integrated Norwich Research Park fund will enable early-stage investments to allow researchers to bring their ideas and inventions from the research stage to commercial or wider application much more quickly. Projects with potential wider societal impact, as well as those with a commercial pathway to application, will be supported…
UK hosts ‘Tetrapartite 2013’
BBSRC took a leading role in the organisation of this year's 'Tetrapartite' meeting, which took place from 2 to 5 June 2013. Tetrapartite is an annual meeting of the heads of agricultural science and policy from France, USA, Canada and the UK. Partner nations host the meeting in rotation, and this year the privilege fell to BBSRC, which organised the meeting on behalf of the other UK partners, Defra, DFID, and the Scottish Government…
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