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Maximising the value of the UK strengths in research, innovation and higher education
Sir John O’Reilly Director General Knowledge and Innovation Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
Knowledge and Innovation • Research Base • Innovation • Higher Education
Coherence and completeness
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Knowledge & innovation funding streams are complementary, and incentivise other investment
HEFCE: £2.88bn Research Councils: £2.59bn TSB: £332m Research Councils: • Fund only the very best projects • Set strategic research priorities and encourage larger, multidisciplinary projects • Often collaborate with business and TSB
HEFCE: • Supports the higher costs of teaching some (STEM) subjects and taught postgraduates • Supporting widening participation, and social mobility through Higher Education • Provides a flexible block grant allowing universities to invest strategically in inquiry-driven research and respond to emerging priorities • Provides infrastructure for knowledge transfer activities
Technology Strategy Board: • Provides funding to business directly • Supports business innovation – often but not always based on university research
UK universities: international excellence (1) Rank
Shanghai Jiaotong
THE
QS
1
Harvard
CalTech
MIT
2
Stanford
Stanford
Cambridge
3
MIT
Oxford
Harvard
4
UC Berkeley
Harvard
UCL
5
Cambridge
MIT
Oxford
6
CalTech
Princeton
Imperial
7
Princeton
Cambridge
Yale
8
Columbia
Imperial
Chicago
9
Chicago
UC Berkeley
Princeton
10
Oxford
Chicago
CalTech
2
UK universities: international excellence (2) Top 100 universities under 50 (2013): amongst the different countries the greatest number (18) are in UK •
UK has 18, Australia has 13 and the US 8
Source: Times Higher Education / The Guardian 2013
Characteristics of the UK Research Base “I am up for the challenge ... of making Britain the best place in the world to do science”
The Rt. Hon. George Osborne MP Chancellor of the Exchequer 9 November 2012
• UK investment in Research: • •
The Haldane Principle “We have protected cash spending on science and research with a £4.6billion ring-fenced budget” Ring-fenced funding
•
Dual support
•
Strong competition
“We understand that cutting edge science requires cutting edge facilities and equipment” “We have announced a science capital package of £1.1Bn, rising with inflation to 2021 which nearly doubles our longterm investment.”
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Science is international
“Science and the arts belong to the whole world. The barriers of nationality vanish before them.“ Johann Wolfgang Goethe
“There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table.“ Anton Chekhov
Strength of the UK research base UK share of global science
Source: Elsevier
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Strength of the UK research base Citations (all sectors) per unit spend on GERD for UK and comparators (2006-10)
Source: Elsevier 2011
Conditions for Innovation 2
1
3 20 12 /1
20 11 /1
20 10 /1
20 09 /1
20 08 /9
20 07 /8
20 06 /7
0
UK Strength in Collaboration advanced
0 2
world ranking
4 6 8 10 12 14
The World Economic Forum ranks the UK second in university- industry collaboration, ahead of the US and second only to Switzerland
5
University – industry collaboration The World Economic Forum ranks the UK in the top five tightly grouped countries UK
Singapore
US
Finland
Switzerland
2
3
4
5
6
Netherlands
Finland
Sweden
Spain
Ireland
Germany
France
United Kingdom
The UK attracts R&D investment from global business
Number of R&D FDI Projects by EU Destination Country (2002-2006)
6
Business R&D has held up well • Business enterprise investment in R&D (BERD) held up relatively well in 2011, given the economic context. This may suggest a strong impact from leveraging public investment in research. • BERD usually only grows significantly in periods of rapid economic growth • 6% real-terms increase in BERD in 2011
Innovation GE Global Innovation Score Card WIPO Innovation Ranking Top Quartile Countries – Innovation Scorecard
Canada Finland Germany Hong Kong Israel Netherlands Norway N.B. Top Quartile, listed Singapore algebraically not ranked Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom United States The countries that fall into the top quartile are considered leaders in laying out the kind of environment necessary to promote innovation
Country
2012
2013
Switzerland
1
1
Sweden
2
2
UK
5
3
Netherlands
6
4
USA
10
5
Finland
4
6
Hong Kong
8
7
Singapore
3
8
Denmark
7
9
Ireland
9
10
7
Industrial Strategy: Government and Industry in partnership •
A spectrum of support for all sectors;
•
Supporting emerging technologies including the “8 Great”;
•
Working with business to help develop skills that businesses will need;
•
Working to improve access to finance for businesses;
•
Giving confidence to business by publishing a forward look of government contracts.
The 11 sectors Life Science Strategy (Dec 2011) and one year on update (Dec 2012) Aim: To make the UK the global hub for life sciences Aerospace (March 2013) Aim: Maintain existing UK market share; secure UK employment Professional Business Services (July 2013) Aim: make the UK the global hub of expertise Education (July 2013) Aim: Increase the UK's education exports
Nuclear (March 2013) Aim: Grow the global market share; set out role that nuclear plays in UK energy mix
Construction (July 2013) Aim: make the UK the global leader in sustainable construction
Oil and Gas (March 2013) Aim: Increase inward investment in energy supply chain
Agri-tech (July 2013) Aim: increase inward investment and exports
Automotive (July 2013) Aim: Investment in R&D; grow and develop UK supply chain
Offshore wind (August 2013) Aim: Build competitive and innovative UK supply chain
Information Economy (June 2013) Aim: to seize the opportunities from new ICT technology
Eight Great Technologies
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Eight Great Technologies Big Data
Satellites
Robotics
Synthetic Biology
£189 m £34 m
£25 m
£35 m £44 m
£50 m £3.5m
Regenerative Medicine
Agri-Science
Advanced Materials
Energy Storage
£20 m £25m
£30 m £70 m
£73 m £10 m
£30 m
Research campuses: £35 m, Advanced Metrology Lab: £25 m, Transformative Infrastructure: £50 m, Pharmavision: £38 m
Total: £600 million 2012 & £186 million 2013
Next steps? • Continued pressure on public spending • Consistent support for knowledge and innovation • The case must be made persuasively • How to respond to challenges?
A shared endeavour
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Survival of the fittest? Darwin on Evolution
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change”
“ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES and the role of natural selection”
Thank you Sir John O’Reilly Director General Knowledge and Innovation Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
