Few now disagree that we don’t just need growth but a more sustainable recovery based on an economy less reliant on the City and debt-fuelled consumer booms. The pace of growth in the developing economies creates major markets for UK science, technology and innovation. As the next phase in the agricultural and industrial revolutions takes hold, huge markets will be opened up, not least in the life sciences – the use of biological science to solve societal challenges in medicine, energy and agriculture. [read more]