By Jon Robinson Britain’s “chronic short-termism” is holding it back from being a science and technology superpower, according to a new report backed by billionaire businessman John Caudwell and former Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair. The report, published by the Council on Geostrategy, sets out seven reasons why the over 60 scientists, business leaders, policy makers and experts think the country’s scientific and research base is being “hampered”. They include an “incoherent strategy, average business investment, short-term funding, bureaucratic burden, risk aversion, skills gap and limited acc…
