Business group wants roadmap to increased R&D activity across the UK
The Confederation of British Industry has called on the next government to set out “a roadmap for raising UK R&D activity within its first year of office”, especially focusing on areas outside the traditional golden triangle of Oxford, Cambridge and London.
In a report published on 3 December, called Don’t wait, innovate: Stepping up R&D, from St Austell to St Andrews, the CBI says such plans should include “measures to ramp up public funding support for Innovate UK; drive innovation through Government procurement; and push innovation diffusion throughout the UK economy”.
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