Science and technology in Wales

The Wales Science and Innovation Advisory Council gives advice to the Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales on science, innovation and business policy for Wales but does not have any statutory or financial responsibilities. Members of the council include individuals involved in research and innovation, academics and those involved in industry.{{Cite web |title=What we do: Wales Science and Innovation Advisory Council |url=https://gov.wales/science-advisory-council-wales/what-we-do |access-date=2022-10-15 |website=GOV.WALES |language=en}}

{{See also|List of Welsh scientists|Universities in Wales}}

• From 2010 to 2018, Welsh researchers accounted for 4% of UK publications and 0.3% of global scholarly output.{{cite web

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|title=A performance-based assessment of the Welsh Research base (2010-2018)|website=gov.wales|access-date=21 March 2023}}

• Wales is the most efficient of all its comparators in terms of output per expenditure.
• Wales' research and development funding now accounts for 62% of total expenditure.
• Wales's citation impact has risen to 1.8. This is 80% above the global average and 13% above the UK average.{{cite web

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• Wales' proportion of top 5% of the most cited publications is twice the global average.{{Cite web |title=A performance based assessment of the Welsh research base |url=https://gov.wales/performance-based-assessment-welsh-research-base |access-date=2022-05-02 |website=GOV.WALES |language=en}}

Health and Care Research Wales is a networked organisation, supported by Welsh Government, which brings together a wide range of partners across the NHS in Wales, universities and research institutions, local authorities, and others.

The organisations works in close partnership with other government agencies and research funders (both in Wales and across the UK); industry partners; patients; public and other stakeholders. Work together to promote research into diseases, treatments, services and outcomes that can lead to discoveries and innovations which can improve and even save people's lives.{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://healthandcareresearchwales.org/about |access-date=2021-06-02 |website=Health Care Research Wales |language=en}}

The Food Industry Centre (FIC) at Cardiff Metropolitan University (also known as UWIC) is a Welsh research and education organisation designed to address issues of food safety and food-related health concerns. Its mission also includes supporting the Welsh food industry. The centre, which is part of UWIC's Cardiff School of Health Sciences at the university's Llandaff campus, was launched in 1999. A new facility for the centre opened on 21 April 2009 and was built at a cost of £5,000,000.{{cite news |author=Moira Sharkey |date=26 January 2008 |title=Food industry centre part of £46m Uwic revamp |publisher=South Wales Echo/Wales Online |url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/education-news/2008/01/26/food-industry-centre-part-of-46m-uwic-revamp-91466-20398119/ |access-date=2009-07-11}}{{cite news |date=June 2006 |title=New facility to boost Welsh food industry |publisher=Food Trade Review |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-18465182_ITM |access-date=2009-07-11}}

{{See also|Economy of Wales}}

The Aerospace Wales Forum is the trade association for companies that work in the Aerospace & Defence sector in Wales.{{Cite web |title=Aerospace Wales Forum {{!}} Aerospace, Defence and Space |url=https://www.aerospacewalesforum.com/ |access-date=2022-05-02 |website=Aerospace Wales |language=en-GB}}

• Hawker 800 XP, the Airbus plant in Broughton builds the fuselage and wings for the Hawker 800XP variant. This work employs about 450 people at the plant in North Wales.{{Cite web |last=Tyrrell |first=Michael |date=2022-05-09 |title=Airbus announces 6,000 new jobs, including 450 at Broughton - Aerospace Manufacturing |url=https://aero-mag.com/airbus-investment-broughton-09052022 |access-date=2023-02-06 |website=aero-mag.com |language=en}}
• Airbus has major sites at Filton in the city of Bristol and at Broughton in north Wales.{{cite web |title=Who we are |url=http://www.eads.com/eads/united-kingdom/en/our-company/who-we-are.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203182922/http://www.eads.com/eads/united-kingdom/en/our-company/who-we-are.html |archive-date=3 December 2010 |access-date=30 October 2010 |publisher=EADS UK}}{{Better source needed|reason=Newer source needed|date=June 2022}}

Wales is an important{{How|date=June 2022|title=Important in what way, it also lists two examples which one has since closed, is it still "important"? Source needed.}} producer of automotive components: Ford has a major engine plant at Bridgend,{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}} and BorgWarner has a major components plant in Kenfig, South Wales.{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}} However amid a global cost-cutting drive and citing a lack of demand for its manufacturing capacity, Ford closed the plant on 25 September 2020 and production of the Dragon engine is moving to Poland.{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}}

The Welsh Automotive Forum, also known as WAF, is a limited company that lobbies the government on behalf of the automotive industry in Wales. It was formed in 1999.{{cite web |title=About WAF |url=http://www.welshautomotiveforum.co.uk |publisher=The Welsh Automotive Forum |accessdate=2008-05-20}}

TIMET has a plant in Waunarlwydd, Swansea, which is one of the world's major suppliers of titanium for jet engine blades and medical applications.{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}}

During the 1980s and 1990s, a major growth sector in manufacturing was the electronics industry with over 130 North American and 35 Japanese companies establishing operations in Wales.{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}} However, this is a characteristic of a "branch factory" economy where routine production is located in one region while higher skill activities are located in another.{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}}

The Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) ({{langx|cy|Canolfan y Dechnoleg Amgen}}) is an eco-centre in Powys, mid-Wales, dedicated to demonstrating and teaching sustainable development. CAT, despite its name, no longer concentrates its efforts exclusively on alternative technology, but provides information on all aspects of sustainable living.{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}}

• List of Welsh innovations and discoveries
• Economy of Wales

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