Squabbling over Faraday centres. (United Kingdom science policy, centers for technology transfer) (News)

Two major figures in UK science policy are openly disagreeing over the proposed Faraday centres for technology transfer, put forward last year by a working group on innovation (C&I 1992, 157). The group's chairman, Sir John Fairclough, also chairman of the Centre for Exploitation of Science and Technology (CEST), 'has quickly responded to the thumbs-down the proposal received from the House of Lords committee on science and technology (C&I 1993, 105).

In a letter to Lord Flowers, chairman of the Lords committee, Fairclough claims the Lords have 'missed a significant opportunity to influence national thinking on innovation'. He goes on to criticise the committee's research …