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<p>The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Innovate UK
oversee coordination and promotion of research in these and other areas.</p><p>The
White Paper, ‘Success as a Knowledge Economy,’ set out the Government’s plans to create
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). UKRI will ensure our research and innovation system
is sufficiently integrated, strategic and agile to meet current and future challenges
and deliver national capability that drives discovery and growth.</p><p>EPSRC has
a portfolio of over £450m of materials-related research covering the breadth of materials
(including the metals/alloys identified, glass and plastics), from fundamental physics
to the re-use and remanufacture of advanced new alloys and other materials.</p><p>Innovate
UK’s Delivery Plan for 2016/17 sets out support through its Manufacturing and Materials
Directorate which includes a twice-yearly £15m collaborative research and development
fund aimed at both manufacturing and materials.</p><p>Innovate UK has also provided
over £70m funding to the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, which includes some materials
manufacturing and development research, for example materials research at the National
Composite Centre (composites and plastics), the Advanced Forming Research Centre (powder
metallurgy), the Manufacturing Technology Centre (Additive Layer Manufacturing) and
Centre For Process Innovation (polymer research).</p><p>The Henry Royce Institute
has a work stream in Advanced Materials Processing, and will seek to coordinate the
infrastructure supporting UK-based advanced materials research providing national
capability.</p>
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