UK budget lobs £100 million at business R&D

Michael Kenward

The DTI's Technology Programme has been lumbering along for a few years now, but it still isn't all that clear what the Technology Strategy Board is for. Allegedly set up to think great thoughts on how the DTI should promote innovation in the UK through technology, it actually turned out to be a "mini Research Council" with control over its own budget for projects.

The latest evidence piles on support for the latter. It comes in the shape of "A further £100 million for UK business to research and develop new technologies from environmentally friendly low carbon projects to leading edge manufacturing". That's the words from the post-budget press release from the DTI.

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