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- A taxonomy of economic and national security risks with likelihood impact assessments to determine relative severity.
- How can the UK use its S&T strengths to protect national security?
- How can the UK effectively assess and mitigate semiconductor supply chain vulnerabilities?
- What does evidence suggest about how the UK could prepare for future trends?
- How can the UK retain and expand its strategic advantage in relation to semiconductor IP, design, R&D and compound and advanced materials?
- What are the policy levers available in S&T to support and protect economic and national security How effective are they?
- What cyber interventions that DSIT or NCSC runs are the most effective at reducing cyber incidents and improving cyber resilience? How effective are the NIS Regulations at securing operators of essential services in the UK? How effective is carrying out each of the 10 Steps to Cyber Security at reducing cyber risk?
- What are the key determinants of economic security?
- What are the most relevant potential changes in the external security and resilience risk environment?
- What does evidence suggest about how the UK could prepare for future trends?
- What are the critical emerging technologies on the 5, 10, and 15-year horizon which have the potential to change cyberspace or impact on the UK’s cyber-power and strategic advantage? What novel critical applications of existing technologies could have the potential to transform cyberspace? How should emerging technologies be prioritised for cyber security research?
- What incentives need to be put in place to ensure that the UK semiconductor industry remains competitive?
- Which technologies are going to be important for economic and national security over the next 10 years?
- How can we best stress test the UK’s playbooks for different risks becoming crises in an ongoing way?
- What are the direct impacts of the harms of online mis/disinformation and what types of online mis/disinformation are most harmful? How do these impact individuals, wider society and the democratic process (whether physical, psychological health, civil unrest, UK security, elections)?
- What are the risks to UK interests if the industry led, multi stakeholder nature of the global internet is weakened in favour of greater state- or multilateral control?
- What does research tell us about the impact of interventions that the Government has put in place to strengthen the UK's capabilities in digital and emerging technologies, and about possible future trajectories?