BEIS plans to boost productivity and improve lives by tackling society’s Grand Challenges in life sciences, artificial intelligence, automation and space. By investing in R&D and innovation, we will unleash potential and work towards making the UK a science superpower. To do this, BEIS needs research to better understand:
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I present the Serendipity proposal, with SPRU (Sussex, UK) and Columbia (NYC, USA), to conduct a body of frontier work on the role, management and impact of serendipity on research performance. The project addresses majo...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Sussex
The project explores the concept of serendipity in research, which is related to the unpredictability and potential benefits of blue skies research, but does not directly address how to quantify these benefits.
Mission-oriented science and technology - that is Government funded science and technology in direct support of the goals or missions of the state - has a long history and accounts for a great deal of public spending on ...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Manchester
The project focuses on mission-oriented research systems, which is not directly related to the question about quantifying the benefits of blue skies research.
Research Councils "encourage researchers to consider the potential contribution that their research can make to the economy and society from the outset, and the resources required to carry out appropriate and projec...
Funded by: MRC
Lead research organisation: King's College London
The project aims to understand the relative valuations of research impact, which could be a method to quantify the benefits of blue skies research, but it does not specifically address this type of research.