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What are the social and distributional impacts and implications of new technologies and emerging industries?

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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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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

Beis areas research interest interim update 2020

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