In its report Science and technology superpower: more than a slogan? the House of Lords Science and Technology committee is dismissive about the UK’s chances of meeting the target to increase the proportion of GDP spent on research to 2.4 per cent by 2027.
It is also pretty withering about the UK becoming a science and technology superpower by 2030. Largely because there is no shared understanding of what that slogan means or how it will be achieved.
