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Innovation warning: ‘Don’t repeat the British thing’

Substantial and sustained investment is necessary if the UK government wants to restore the country’s manufacturing base, a leading academic warned in a comment in the Daily Telegraph on 24 August.

David Payne, professor of photonics and director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton, assessed the challenges faced in converting excellent research into commercial successful products.

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