Enabling the UK knowledge economy: A new STFC e-infrastructure strategy
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STFC has developed a new e-infrastructure strategy, designed to support and strengthen UK research and UK industrial productivity.
As well as setting out STFC’s vision for e-infrastructure, this strategy identifies the e-infrastructure challenges facing STFC, its research communities and the UK, and proposes actions that could be taken to address these.
This document will contribute to a larger debate, as the e-infrastructure needed by UK researchers across academia and industry cannot be developed by STFC acting in isolation. It is expected that working with partner organisations and industry will ultimately lead to an agreed national e-infrastructure strategy for research and innovation to be implemented by UK Research and Innovation and the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy.
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