Slides from the Town Hall Meeting on 29 June in London. The Chemistry Landscape consulatation is open to the chemistry community to establish whether proposals drafted at the town hall meeting are practical, appropiate or robust. Please see http://my.rsc.org/chemistrylandscape for more information.

1. Developing a Vision for UK Chemistry

2. Economic benefitsDirect contribution of the downstream chemistry-using industries to UK GDP, 2007 £billion Source: Oxford Economics, EPSRC, RSC

3. Social Source: A Century of Change: Trends in UK statistics since 1900, HoC Library Estimated from 1996

4. Environmental Endangered elements: the periodic table in short supply Source: Sustainable Technologies Roadmap, Chemistry Innovation Knowledge Transfer Network (CIKTN)

5. UK and German share of world goods exports, 1960-2009 Source: World Trade Organisation

6. Research income and costs 2007/2008 £000s Chemistry department Source: Finances of Chemistry and Physics Departments in UK Universities, 2010 Nigel Brown Associates

7. The global R&D landscape Source: OECD 2010

8. Research pooling

9. Patent application growth rate by patent office (%): selected offices Source: WIPO World Intellectual Property Indicators, 2010

10. UK R&D expenditure by industry sector, 2002–2009 Source: ONS

12. Technology Innovation Centres Source: BIS: The Current and Future Role of Technology and Innovation Centres in the UK, 2009

13. Employers seeking scientific andmathematically skilled staff (%) Source: CBI

14. Employer satisfaction with school/college leavers’ employability skills (%) Source: CBI

15. Teaching income and costs 2007/2008 £000s Chemistry department Source: Finances of Chemistry and Physics Departments in UK Universities, 2010 Nigel Brown Associates

16. PISA Ranking UK * Range given as too few schools participated to provide an accurate result Source: OECD

17. Next Steps Town Hall Meeting Research capability Engagement Business landscape Skills pipeline Working groups 2020 Vision Report Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct 2012……. 2020