[Academic] Fwd: BIS and SSAC consulation on long-term capital investment

[John Jeffers]

Dear All,

Please pass on any views you might have to me on the questions below on long-term capital investment.
There will be SUPA, IoP and University responses, and so there are plenty of ways to get our joint voice heard.

Regards
John




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Subject:        BIS and SSAC consulation on long-term capital investment
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Dear All,

The government - through the dept for business, innovation and skills (BIS) - is conducting a survey of academics to plan for equipment investment in Science - see attached.

Strathclyde will send a collated response and it would be much appreciated if you could help by providing your dept's view on what the priorities should be..............I need your response by 23rd May for it to be included.

In particular can you provide your views on the following questions.

BIS questions
Qu1: What balance should we strike between meeting capital requirements at the individual research project and institution level, relative to the need for large-scale investments at national and international levels?
Qu2: What should be the UK's priorities for large scale capital investments in the national interest, including where appropriate collaborating in international projects?

SSAC questions
Qu3: What facilities are of strategic importance to your principal scientists and the longer-term aims of your organisation?  It would be helpful here to distinguish between medium-scale Institutional facilities, national facilities and international ones.  ‘Medium-scale’ is defined as equipment and facilities typically in cost range of ~£250k–£10M. [This should be a list of facilities]
Qu4: Do current access to national and international arrangements fully meet your needs?
Qu5: Will usage of these facilities grow, maintain or reduce over the next 10 years? [For each facility/equipment indicate on of the three options]
Qu6: What would be your priorities for new facilities, of whatever scale? [This can mean institutional, national or international facilities]
Qu7: Are you aware of any Scottish priorities for large-scale capital investment (including international collaboration)?
Qu8: Can you offer current examples of effective sharing or leverage, and in particular any that arise from Innovation Centres?  Can you identify future opportunities for sharing and offer advice on successful sharing arrangements?

Thanks

Tony

Dr Anthony J. Mulholland BSc MSc PhD FIMA CMath
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From: Craig Young
Sent: 12 May 2014 14:06
To: Walter Johnstone; Tony Mulholland
Cc: Carol Brady; Anja Lowit; Ian Wooton
Subject: BIS and SSAC consulation on long-term capital investment

Dear Walter and Tony,

As I mentioned at RKEC, I am contacting you both in an effort to coordinate a response to the BIS consultation (attached). To complicate matters the Scottish Science Advisory Council (SSAC) pre-empted the consultation by having their own consultation which they want to feed into a ‘Scottish’ response to BIS. Some of the SSAC questions are related to the BIS consultation and some are not (probably down to the fact that they were trying to guess what BIS would ask).

The deadline for response to be sent to SSAC (9th May) has long since passed. Jason Reese, in his SSAC role, has been chasing David L for a response. David’s view is that the BIS consultation (deadline 9th July) is the priority but if we can provided something soonish for SSAC then all the better.

I am wondering if you can use your Faculty Research Committee to collate responses for the following questions:

BIS questions
Qu1: What balance should we strike between meeting capital requirements at the individual research project and institution level, relative to the need for large-scale investments at national and international levels?
Qu2: What should be the UK's priorities for large scale capital investments in the national interest, including where appropriate collaborating in international projects?
SSAC questions
Qu3: What facilities are of strategic importance to your principal scientists and the longer-term aims of your organisation?  It would be helpful here to distinguish between medium-scale Institutional facilities, national facilities and international ones.  ‘Medium-scale’ is defined as equipment and facilities typically in cost range of ~£250k–£10M. [This should be a list of facilities]
Qu4: Do current access to national and international arrangements fully meet your needs?
Qu5: Will usage of these facilities grow, maintain or reduce over the next 10 years? [For each facility/equipment indicate on of the three options]
Qu6: What would be your priorities for new facilities, of whatever scale? [This can mean institutional, national or international facilities]
Qu7: Are you aware of any Scottish priorities for large-scale capital investment (including international collaboration)?
Qu8: Can you offer current examples of effective sharing or leverage, and in particular any that arise from Innovation Centres?  Can you identify future opportunities for sharing and offer advice on successful sharing arrangements? [Please note we have responses from individuals on the Equipment Sharing Working Group]

Deadline of 23rd May for responses

Regards,
Craig




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