Dr Graeme Malcolm OBE, CEO of M Squared, discusses the impact of Brexit’s Galileo negotiations on Britain’s science and technology sectors.
From the discovery of the Higgs boson, to mapping the human genome –leaps forward in scientific progress can be attributed to the coming together of great minds from across the globe.
Collaborative projects on an international scale are fundamental to scientific discovery and tackling the most prominent challenges of our time.
Alone, no nation has the resources, nor brain-power, to address perils such as – halting climate change and curing cancer, for example. These issues are on a scale that demands a multinational approach. Acting alone threatens to halt the evolution of scientific advancement.
The danger of going it alone
Take the Galileo project as an example. The European Space Agency’s initiative is Europe’s answer to satellite navigation and signals a departure away from a reliance on the US for GPS, telecoms and military navigation....