Abstract
The UK government has published its plans to set up a defence diversification agency within the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA). “Without detracting from its defence purposes, DERA could devote effort, on a much greater scale than so far attempted, to converting the benefits of its research into wealth creation in the civil sector,” states the green paper. “The government therefore proposes to put in place, through the agency, a programme for the transfer of technology to industry, whether civil or military,” DERA has an annual turnover of £1bn, 90% of which comes from the Ministry of Defence, and is active in many areas of physics including semiconductors, materials and optics.
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