westminster consultation on china sir david king chief scientific adviser to hm government 20 june...
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Westminster Consultation on China
Sir David King
Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government
20 June 2007
House of Commons, London
China-UK Year of Science, 2005
Flood and Coastal Defence UK and China partners in a study to assess China’s future needs for flooding defences
Carbon capture
UK China working on a groundbreaking feasibility study, £3.5m from the UK
World Science Citations, 1997-2001Country % share of
world publications
% share of world citations
Rank order
USA 34.9 ↓ 49.4 ↓ 1
EU15 37.1 ↑ 39.3 ↑
UK 9.4 ↑ 11.4 ↑ 2
GERMANY 8.8 ↑ 10.0 ↑ 3
JAPAN 9.3 ↑ 8.4 ↑ 4
FRANCE 6.4 ↑ 6.9 ↑ 5
CANADA 4.6 ↓ 5.3 ↓ 6
ITALY 4.1 ↑ 4.4 ↑ 7
CHINA 3.2 ↑ 1.6 ↑ 19
INDIA 2.1 ↓ 0.9 ↑ 22
SOUTH AFRICA 0.5 - 0.3 ↑ 29
IRAN 0.13 ↑ 0.06 ↑ 30
Source: D.A. King, Nature, 430, p312, 2004
Percentage of world share of publications, 2004
Source: Adapted from P Zhou and Leydesdorff, ‘The emergence of China as a leading nation in science’ Research Policy 35, no1 (Feb 2006)
China France Germany Japan Korea UK US EU-15
1995 2.05 6.09 7.62 8.65 0.79 8.88 33.54 34.36
1998 2.90 6.48 8.82 9.42 1.41 9.08 31.63 36.85
2001 4.30 6.33 8.68 9.52 2.01 8.90 31.01 36.55
2004 6.52 5.84 8.14 8.84 2.70 8.33 30.48 35.18
International Collaboration with China
’000s Total UK GER USA
Clinical 3.7 0.9 0.3 2.5
Health 0.5 0.1 0.1 0.3
Biological
Science
2.4 0.5 0.4 1.5
Environment 1.3 0.3 0.2 0.8
Mathematics 1.4 0.3 0.2 0.9
Physical Sciences
7.1 1.2 2.0 3.9
Engineering 5.5 1.1 1.1 3.3
TOTAL 21.9 4.4 4.3 13.2
China, Collaborative Output, 1996-2000
’000s Total UK GER USA
Clinical 9 1.6 0.9 6.5
Health 1.0 0.2 0.1 0.7
Biological
Science
6.2 1.1 0.9 4.2
Environment 3.5 0.6 0.5 2.4
Mathematics 2.6 0.5 0.4 1.7
Physical Sciences
13.8 2.3 3.6 7.9
Engineering 10.3 2.1 1.9 6.3
TOTAL 46.4 8.4 8.3 29.7
China, Collaborative Output, 2001-2005
UK/China Joint Commission on Science and Technology, 2006
• It was agreed to prioritise co-operation, including:
– Clean and renewable energy
– Climate change, environment and sustainable development
– Infectious disease
– Nano/and materials science
– Biomedicine and the modernisation of traditional medicines
Global Science and Innovation Forum
CSA
Future for UK-China Relations