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Innovate UK, which allocates about £600m of innovation support money, will see its funding cut in real terms (the "flat cash" settlement science received under the Coalition).
This summer, after a judge ruled that the student had standing, USDA moved to negotiate an out-of-court settlement (Science, 21 July, p. 377).
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The Chancellor's announcement of a continued flat cash settlement for science resource is immensely worrying – we've already suffered a substantial loss in the amount of science funding due to the freeze put in place in 2010.
Owen Gibson Osborne declared the settlement for science a "huge investment" for the area and spoke of hopes to make Britain once again a country where the future is invented.
Farrar insists that "the UK remains a very special place to do research" and says that he remains optimistic about a positive settlement for science in the spending review.
The "frozen"/flat cash budget settlement for science and research needs to be put in context.
It will be some time before we know the detailed impact of this settlement for science.
Clearly, the "settlement" of science in society is changing, with the new discourse of RRI and the related practices being one element, reflecting these changes as well as pushing them.
In retrospect, one can see that a long-term "settlement" between science and society started in the late 17th century (in the 1660s in France and Britain, to be more precise), one indication being how the UK Royal Society was established with an implicit political charter: you can do science if you don't interfere in society.
Since the government ordered a flat cash settlement on the science budget in 2010, researchers have braced themselves for a decline in funds as inflation takes its toll.
At the face of it, today's settlement for UK science seems like a lifeline researchers across the nation should be happy about.
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