Defra's Science and Innovation Strategy 2003-06
Delivering the Evidence
Please note that work for the Evidence and Innovation Strategy (E&IS) for 2005-08 is currently underway.
- Delivering
the Evidence - Defra's Science and Innovation Strategy (2003-06)
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(This content has been moved to the National Archives website.) - Detailed science and innovation strategies at Policy Directorate level
Purpose
We published the final version of Defra's Science & Innovation Strategy, Delivering the Evidence. It aims to-
- communicate for the first time, Defra's scientific objectives, direction and vision;
- identify the range and purpose of Defra's scientific activities planned for the next three years;
- explain how science is being used to address and underpin principal policy needs;
- help Defra's science agencies and others to define the scientific priorities for their own strategies;
- provide a baseline for the 2003 'Forward Look' , which will look towards the next ten years and be used to inform our future science strategies. (This content has been moved to the National Archive)
Open Meeting
An Open Meeting was held on an earlier draft of this Strategy on April 7th, 2003, in order to gain feedback from a wide audience.
A transcript of the event can be viewed as a single
document ,
or in separate sections with the associated slides in PDF format:
- Introduction
& Opening Address(Lord Whitty & Professor Howard Dalton
FRS)
- Slides (2.4Mb)
- Sustainable
Food and Farming (Mr David Thompson)
- Slides (1.4Mb)
- Public
and Animal Heath (Dr Nick Coulson)
- Slides (1.7Mb)
- Q &
A Session
- Climate
Change and Other Environmental Risks (Mr Henry Derwent)
- Slides (2.5Mb)
- Conservation
and Use of Natural Resources (Dr John Sherlock)
- Slides (2.5Mb)
- The Marine
Environment (Mr John Roberts)
- Slides (2.5Mb)
- Developing
Rural Economies and Communities (Mrs Anna Walker CB)
- Slides (2.4Mb)
- Questions
and Open Discussion Session
Also available is a selection of photographs.
Feedback
Many thanks to all those who have gave feedback on the previous draft
of the Strategy. A summary of the comments received is given here
.
Feedback from the Open Meeting in April has been invaluable, as it has allowed us to strengthen the final document. We have attempted to address the issues raised by stakeholders since the Open Meeting.
As a result of feedback, the strategy is now clearer on:
- how science will contribute to policy making (see Section 1);
- how we will encourage innovation (see boxed texts in each chapter) and
- how we will measure success against the strategy (see additional chapter 10)
It was gratifying to know that many stakeholders felt the draft strategy was on the right lines and welcomed Defra's strategic approach to science and innovation.
Contact
For further information, please contact: research.policy@defra.gsi.gov.uk
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