The Guardian: UK plc should give science a rocket assist

China is booming. Over the past couple of decades it has become acknowledged as one of the global economy’s powerhouses, developing its industry at a stupendous rate … Alan Hughes, an economist at the Judge Institute in Cambridge, says seeking to shift universities from “basic” science to “applied” science may delay the creation of “an effective entrepreneurial society based on technological advances”.

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