Campaign for the Chemical Sciences

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Campaign for the Chemical Sciences

• to develop and support chemical sciences in the
  UK to meet the scientific, technological and
  human challenges of the 21st Century

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Campaign for the Chemical Sciences

• New initiative in 2003
• Supported by SRB and Council
• Integral component of RSC strategy and goals
• Evidence driven case to champion chemical science
  and chemical scientists
• Chemical sciences essential for economic growth

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Campaign for the Chemical Sciences

• Anticipate and influence science policy, funding,
  economic environment
• Campaigning organisation for the chemical
  sciences
• Redefine role of learned society/professional
  body in the 21st Century

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RSC Strategy

• Vision
• RSC as the premier organisation in Europe for
  advancing chemical sciences

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RSC Strategy - Goals

• Broader footprint across the chemical sciences
• Focus on Europe leading position in Europe and
  increased influence in EU institutions, European
  networks and with other chemical science bodies
• RSC image primary membership organisation in
  Europe for promoting the chemical sciences

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Top 10 Pharma exporters
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EU Chemicals sales
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UK Chemical Industry

• The UK chemical industry in 2001
• annual turnover of ca 50bn
• domestic sales of chemicals were 34bn
• employs 235,000 people
• supports several hundred thousand additional jobs
  throughout the economy
• totals some 3500 companies ranging from those
  with under 10 employees to multinational giants

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UK Chemical Industry

• 2 of GDP, 10 of manufacturing industry value
  added
• Manufacturing's number one exporter, with an
  annual trade surplus of more than 5bn
• Spends 3bn a year on new capital investment
• RD expenditure is equivalent to 10 of sales

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Chemicals trade
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Chemicals growth rate
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Chemicals sales
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Chemicals productivity
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Chemicals RD expenditure
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Chemicals RD as sales
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UK Pharmaceutical Industry

• Invested 3.2bn on RD, gt20 turnover
• Carries out 25 of all industry RD in the UK
• Exports were 10.33bn, equivalent to 150k per
  employee
• Has a trade surplus of 2.8bn
• Employs 70k people and generates 250k jobs in
  other industries

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Pharmaceutical Trade 2002
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Leading 100 medicines 2001
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Pharmaceuticals RD
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UK Bioscience industry

• UK bioscience industry is world No2 after US
• representing 400 companies, 25 000 employees
• generating 3bn in revenues
• with 194 drugs in development, 23 in phase III
• Bioscience Leadership Council formed, led by Sir
  Richard Sykes
• Future success depends on investment and skilled
  personnel

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DTI RD scorecard

• Biotechnology Pharmaceuticals are leading
  sectors for long term RD
• 40 highest UK investment
• RD activity above international levels most
  other sectors below
• RD activity is linked to sales growth,
  productivity share price
• UK leading position in Biotech, Pharma, Health
  Aerospace

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Why HE is important

• In 1999-2000 universities generated
• directly and indirectly over 34.8 billion of
  output
• and over 562,000 equivalent jobs throughout the
  economy
• equivalent to 2.7 of the UK workforce in
  employment

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Scientific impact

• With only 1 of the worlds population the UK
• carries out 4.5 of world science
• produces 8 of science papers
• has 9 of citations

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European context

• Europe needs to invest more in research
  particularly if it is to attain its objective of
  becoming the most competitive and dynamic
  knowledge based economy in the world by 2010
• Phillipe Busquin

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European context

• Busquin 2000 initiative to create European
  research area
• Berlin 2003 commitment to European Higher
  Education area by 2010
• Implementation of Bologna Declaration confirmed
• Commitment to start two stage system by 2005
• Integration on UK degrees unresolved

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European context

• EU support for formation of European Research
  Council by 2005
• Issues of funding, location, composition,
  leadership, process
• Increasing impact of EU legislation such as REACH
• Gago initiative to increase number of young
  people pursuing science and technology careers

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2002 EU Barcelona Call for action

• Response to Lisbon EU Council objective to make
  Europe the most competitive knowledge based-based
  economy by 2010
• Average RD investment level to rise from 1.9 to
  3.0
• 2/3 to be funded by private sector

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RD and GDP
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Increasing EU RD

• Increasing investment in RD will lead to annual
  increases of
• 0.5 GDP
• 400k additional jobs across EU
• Reaching 3 will need
• ca 1.2M extra research personnel
• ca 700k extra researchers

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UK RD as of GDP
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Investing for the future

• Evidence suggests that government funded RD has
  a greater impact on productivity growth in
  countries with a high intensity of business
  funded RD
• UK businesses spend less than half the RD per
  worker than in the US, Japan and Germany
• Research shows that innovating companies sustain
  a higher performance, grow faster than
  non-innovators and are more profitable

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European context

• EU proportionally produces more scientists than
  US, but scientists are smaller proportion of work
  force
• Investment in Pharma RD in US increased 5-fold
  over 1990-2002 compared to 2.5 times in EU
• Percentage of RD investment spent by EU based
  Pharma within the EU decreased from 73-59
  between 1990-1999

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Implications

• Chemicals industry makes significant contribution
  to UK economy
• Pharma is world class with respect to
  investment/output
• Increasing competition from lower cost economies
• Increasing drift of high value RD to US
• Future success depends on investment and skilled
  personnel

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Implications

• EU/UK legislation should encourage inward RD
  investment
• EU/UK legislation should support application and
  advances in the chemical sciences
• Essential to guarantee supply of skilled
  scientists and technicians, but Roberts indicates
  signs of shortage
• EU/UK chemicals investment should increase to
  international levels

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A-level chemists
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Pupil achievement
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Achievements at A level
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A level subject choice
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A-level/graduate chemists
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Chemistry Graduates in HE
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change in A-level choice1991-2003
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change in home students first degree 1995-2003
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5 year Trends on chemistry graduates
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Student qualifications
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Implications

• Number of A-level chemists roughly constant over
  10 years
• Numbers completing first chemistry degree have
  fallen by 20 over past 6 years
• More than 90 of those taking A-level do not take
  chemistry degrees
• Increasing A-level numbers will have minimal
  effect

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Qualifications of PhDs
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Entrants to teacher training
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Qualifications of teachers
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Implications

• Bright students study chemistry at GCSE and A
  level
• Not enough of the top cohorts pursue chemistry
  degrees
• Need to improve subject and careers advice
• Need to improve RSC/HE/employer interface

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Implications

• Continued decline in PhD entrants?
• Decline in quality of teacher training entrants?
• Science increasingly taught by non-specialists?

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German chemistry entries
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Chemistry Groups
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Chemistry Groups
Aberdeen
Abertay
Edinburgh
Paisley
St Andrews
Napier
Glasgow
Heriot-Watt
Strathclyde
Bell College
Sunderland
Newcastle
Central Lancashire
Northumbria
Durham
Queens
York
Sheffield Hallam
Salford
Sheffield
Liverpool
Bradford
Teesside
Liverpool John Moores
Huddersfield
Leeds
Manchester Metropolitan
Hull
Manchester
Derby
UMIST
Nottingham Trent
Nottingham
North East Wales Institute
Loughborough
University College, Bangor
Leicester
Keele
De Montfort
Staffordshire
Essex
East Anglia
Wolverhampton
Herfordshire
Birmingham
Cambridge
Coventry
North London
Warwick
Imperial College
Open
University College, London
Bristol
Queen Mary Westfield
Kings
West of England
Birkbeck
Bath
Kingston
Swansea
Kent
Cardiff
Sussex
Oxford
Surrey
Exeter
Brighton
Southampton
Portsmouth
Reading
Plymouth
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Chemistry Groups
Aberdeen
Edinburgh
St Andrews
Glasgow
Heriot-Watt
Strathclyde
Newcastle
Northumbria
Durham
Queens
York
Sheffield
Liverpool
Huddersfield
Leeds
Hull
Manchester
UMIST
Nottingham Trent
Nottingham
North East Wales Institute
Loughborough
University College, Bangor
Leicester
Keele
De Montfort
East Anglia
Birmingham
Cambridge
Warwick
Imperial College
Open
University College, London
Bristol
Queen Mary Westfield
Kings
Bath
Swansea
Cardiff
Sussex
Oxford
Surrey
Exeter
Southampton
Reading
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Chemistry Groups
Edinburgh
St Andrews
Newcastle
Durham
York
Sheffield
Liverpool
Leeds
Manchester
Nottingham
East Anglia
Birmingham
Cambridge
Warwick
Imperial College
University College, London
Bristol
Sussex
Oxford
Southampton
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Chemistry Groups
Durham
Cambridge
Imperial College
University College, London
Bristol
Oxford
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Chemistry PhD Distribution
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Universities UK RAE

• 80 of research active staff at 4,5,5 compared
  to 59 in 1996
• Reduction/removal of funding from 3,4 departments
  will have significant impact on individual
  subjects
• Further concentration of UK research is not based
  on firm evidence
• Increased selectivity will have negative impact
  on Regions

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Chemical Industry by Region
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Universities UK RAE

• Gravely concerned over increasing selectivity in
  research funding
• Funding more concentrated in UK than other
  countries
• Should fund high quality research, wherever
  found. Increased selectivity will have negative
  impact on the regions
• 36 of new start chemistry PhDs in 2000 are in
  4/3 departments
• RDAs are not a long term sustainable replacement
  for government funding

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Implications

• How do we improve
• Working environment?
• Resources for teaching?
• Resources for research?
• How big a chemistry infrastructure does the UK
  EU need?

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Campaign for our subject

• Campaign will focus around 6 key themes
• European policies that build world class
  infrastructure for increased investment in
  scientific research
• European/UK legal, social, economic and
  environmental policies that support the
  development and application of advances in
  chemical sciences for the benefit of society
• Benefits driven case for increased investment in
  chemical sciences in academia and industry that
  reflects supranational, national and regional
  objectives

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Campaign for our subject

• Increased support for
• internationally competitive research in chemical
  sciences throughout the UK academic community
• provision of world class teaching and facilities
  for the chemical sciences in UK universities
• improved teaching standards, facilities and
  career advice in UK schools

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Approach

• Target key organisations
• Parliaments
• Regional Development Agencies
• Funding Agencies Research Councils
• Industry
• Higher Education establishments
• Schools and colleges
• Members
• European dimension is key

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How the campaign will work

• Steering Group
• Simon Campbell chairman
• Harry Kroto
• Barry Price
• Les Ebdon
• Tony Ashmore
• David Giachardi
• Neville Reed
• Rodney Townsend

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Implications for RSC

• How do we refocus efforts?
• How do we decide priorities?
• How will members react to a campaigning
  organisation?