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INTRODUCTION TO THE
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COMPARATIVE
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UNDERSTANDING UK
INNOVATION POLICY
CREATING KNOWLEDGE
EXPLOITING KNOWLEDGE
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ENABLING INNOVATION
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SUPPORTING INNOVATION
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Over 50 university
technology transfer offices
Range of cross-sector
research partnerships
thematic Research
Councils
Catapult Centres
(and growing)
higher education
funding councils
FIRMS
national academies
national intellectual
property office
national innovation
agency (Innovate UK)
A consolidated Business
Growth Service
Over 70,000
members of the Knowledge
Transfer Network
Several government-funded
agencies
Many independent
organisations that work
closely with government
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INSTITUTIONAL PROFILES
UNDERSTANDING UK
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Website: www.innovateuk.org
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I N T E R N AT I O N A L C O L L A B O R AT I O N
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Each Catapult has its own international strategy, and these are constantly
evolving. Common themes across all of the Catapults include
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They have an ambitious goal to transform UK capability in innovation initially in nine areas selected as priorities for economic growth.
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They actively explore what conditions are needed to enable innovation and
seek to influence these on behalf of their sector
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They are funded by a mixture of public sector grants and business funded
contract research
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Website: www.catapult.org.uk
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KTN Ltd was set up in April 2014 to coordinate the work of the former
15 individual Knowledge Transfer Networks.
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KTN missions have a broad focus, from sharing best practice to winning
new business.
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KTN Ltd helps Innovate UK focus its funding calls by setting up Special
Interest Groups on key emerging areas
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The websites of each of the 15 KTNs, where you can find individual contact
details, strategies and priorities:
https://connect.innovateuk.org/knowledge-transfer-networks
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This will see UKTI doing more at international science and innovation
events and developing relationships with global science and innovation
hotspots.
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UKTI is target driven. It has targets for trade, investment and the
number of businesses helped.
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UKTI organises overseas trade missions and offers grants for SMEs to
attend these. 90 percent of the businesses it helps to export are SMEs.
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Website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-tradeinvestment
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Building partnerships
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Website: http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/
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www.designcouncil.org.uk
www.raeng.org.uk
https://royalsociety.org/
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/
http://npl.co.uk/
greatbusiness.gov.uk/
http://www.bis.gov.uk/nmo
http://www.ga.businessgrowthservice.
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Key
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INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION
NETWORKS IN SCIENCE, 1998
Whole counts of internationally co-authored documents
INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION
NETWORKS IN SCIENCE, 2011
Whole courts of internationally co-authored documents
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THE UK HAS SO FAR MAINTAINED ITS POSITION AS THE WORLDS THIRD LARGEST PRODUCER OF
RESEARCH, AND RANKS PARTICULARLY WELL ON INDICATORS OF QUALITY LIKE CITATIONS
International benchmarking
of the UK innovation
System 2014 (BIS)
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A SIMILAR SHIFT IS HAPPENING IN THE GLOBAL GEOGRAPHY OF INNOVATION. WHILE THERES NO DOUBT
THE UK IS STILL A LEADING INNOVATION NATION, IT CAN BE HARDER TO JUDGE HOW IT COMPARES IN
TERMS OF INNOVATION PERFORMANCE
European Union
Scoreboard
Startup Genome
Infographic
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THE UKS EXPENDITURE ON R&D IS LOWER THAN SOME OTHER LEADING S&I NATIONS
UK Gross Domestic
Expenditure on R&D.
2013 (ONS)
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WHILE THE INDICATORS WE LOOK AT ARE OFTEN NATIONAL, R&D SPENDING IS CONCENTRATED IN
CERTAIN COMPANIES, REGIONS AND SECTORS
Size of Firm: R&D spending is concentrated in a
few very large firms:
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The UK has many innovative firms and people, from worldbeating creative businesses like Double Negative to its
thriving business services sector; from advanced
manufacturers like RollsRoyce to world-class research
universities; and from technology giants like ARM to the startups of Shoreditch. But their success masks low investment.
BY BOTH GOVERNMENT:
SOURCE: HTTP://STATS.OECD.ORG
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The Innovation
Index. 2012 (Nesta)
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Creative economy
report 2013 (UNESCO)
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Researchers at Manchester
University celebrated important,
ground-breaking achievements
with the Nobel Prizes awarded for
their work on graphene in 2010.
Yet Chinese institutes already have
vastly more graphenerelated
patents. A Cambridge IP study in 2013 counted over 2,200 patents in
China compared to 54 filed so far in the UK.
International benchmarking
of the UK innovation
system. 2014 (BIS)
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A 2014 assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the UK innovation system relative to other leading comparator
countries by BIS makes the following assessment (adapted from the original):
CATEGORY
ASSESSMENT1
STRENGTHS
WEAKNESSES
MONEY
Medium/Low
TALENT
Medium/Low
KNOWLEDGE
ASSETS
Medium/high
STRUCTURES
AND
INCENTIVES
Medium/high
BROADER
ENVIRONMENT
Medium/high
INNOVATION
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Medium (Mixed)
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STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES AROUND THE UK"
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London and the South East are the most innovation-intensive
regions of the UK. However, there are a range of industrial
clusters around the UK, and nationwide capabilities.
TechBritain map of UK
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IF YOU WANT TO DO YOU OWN ANALYSIS OF UK INNOVATION PERFORMANCE, HERES A HANDY GUIDE TO WHERE TO FIND GOOD DATA
A great place to start is The OECD World Bank Innovation Policy Platform; and regular digests are also produced by
the European Commission (Eurostat) and the OECD; (OECD Main Science and Technology Indicators,
OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard) or for a wider range of countries the World Bank
Look at the UK innovation survey which takes place every 4 years or so, or the ONS statistical bulletin which provides
a useful overview of R&D spending in the UK. For a wider understanding of investment in innovation look at Nestas
Innovation Index or for insights on skills look at HESA studies, or the UK CES Employer Skills surveys
The UK government commissions regular reviews like this Comparative performance of the UK research base, but
companies like Elsevier and Thomson Reuters hold the (commercial) databases. The IPO frequently publish facts and
figures on UK patenting and wider intellectual property, and WIPO publish helpful country profiles. There is now a
searchable database of the impact of UK research and published reports such as Research Excellence Framework
Impact case studies: Economic Impact of UK science base
For research specialisation look at government reports on UK research and innovation performance; Comparative
performance of the UK research base; and for a regional picture,!Mapping local comparative advantages. For
Innovation specialisation look at individual Industry councils like ABPI for pharmaceuticals or UKIE for gaming; the
regularly updated BIS growth dashboard or look for published reports on Eight great technologies: the patent
landscapes, and UKs economic strengths.
There are vast commercial databases and accessible resources in companies house, and ONS. Organisations like
Nesta, TechCityUK create accessible report collections and Spinouts UK hold a UK-wide database and support
reports like Profiling UK University Spinouts. Lots of companies analyse investment and access to finance. For free public
reports try BVCA which produce reports like Venture capital activity 2013 or Nestas wider work on startups and
Alternative Finance. The European ICT Poles of Excellence project has an interactive dashboard you could use to
compare UK startup ecosystems with those in other European countries
Take a look at the regular surveys by HESA and!Praxis Unico or reports on Evaluation of UK knowledge transfer activities.
For wider Intermediate research organisation data look at reports like Research and innovation organisations in the UK,
the Catapult Centres or the UK contract research map.
Explore FDI involving R&D/High tech exports data in regular digests like UKTI inward investment report 2014/15 or at
source from World Bank and Eurostat. HEFCE, HESA, Universities UK and British Council will have data on student flows
at a national level, complemented by OECD internationally.
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UK industrial strategy.
2013 (BIS)
Aerospace
Agricultural technology
Automotive
Construction
Information economy
International education
Life sciences
Nuclear
Offshore wind
Oil and gas
Professional and business services
The strategy aims to:
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support innovation
maximise export potential where UK is well placed to
take a global lead
The UK governments
11 sector strategies
2014 (BIS)
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TECHNOLOGIES:
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Concept to
commercialisation.
2011 (TSB)
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Nesta (2012) Plan I: The case for innovation-led growth. Available at:
http://www.nesta.org.uk/publications/plan-i
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