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HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you very much. Could I ask our other witnesses to respond? Professor Azoulay: If I might add one element to the question that the hon. Member asked, the programme managers…14 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (Second sitting)Q I will follow up on that and then bring in the other witnesses. You speak about oversight. Would it be possible to give a bit more detail on that? In particular, the UK…14 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (Second sitting)Q It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Cummins. May I also echo your thanks to our witnesses for taking the time to join us for this important session? I am in awe…14 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (First sitting)Thank you.14 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (First sitting)Thank you.14 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you. Professor Wilsdon? Professor Wilsdon: I do not have a mission in my back pocket that I want to push. My argument is simply that the thing needs to have more clarity.…14 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (First sitting)Q There are two contradictions that I have spotted in what you are saying. Dame Ottoline, you talked about ARIA needing to deliver transformational research and outcomes, but at…14 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (First sitting)I will stop there, because I know many Members have questions.14 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (Second sitting)Thank you.14 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (Second sitting)Q As a chartered engineer, I am always happy to put engineering in anything. The Advanced Research and Engineering Projects Agency would be AREPA. Your point, which has come up a…14 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you for both of those responses. To follow up, you both emphasised the importance of procurement and market pull. It seems to me that there is such a vast range of areas,…14 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (Second sitting)Thank you. I could ask you lots more questions, but I will stop there and hand over.14 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (Second sitting)Q If nobody else has a question, I will take the opportunity to come back on that point, particularly on procurement. I remember having a great deal of difficulty persuading the…14 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (First sitting)Q I thank our witnesses for taking the time to join us today and bringing us the benefit of your considerable expertise and experience. Professor Mazzucato, you wrote the…14 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (First sitting)Thank you. Professor Wilsdon? Professor Wilsdon: I agree with everything that Mariana has just said. The one thing that many of us have been calling for since this idea was…14 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (First sitting)Thank you very much. Professor Bond? Professor Bond: I thank the previous speakers. I think that the idea is about having radical innovation, which is different from grand…14 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you very much. Professor Mazzucato, you were very clear that it is helpful not to consider this as a replacement institution. We have already heard some confusion as to…14 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (First sitting)Q What do you think ARIA’s mission should be? I will put that same question to the other witnesses. Professor Mazzucato: I am holding the 2017 industrial strategy, which Greg…14 Apr 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsWylam Brewery in my constituency has a fantastic location—our old science museum—and wonderful beers, which I have personally researched. The EU accounted for half its business…25 Mar 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsIn lockdown, we have all become much more dependent on technology, yet that technology is not designed to treat us equally, with video-conferencing and photo-sharing apps that do…24 Mar 2021