SUMMARY: Enhancing Impact: The Value of Public Sector R&D

Solutions

We don’t just generate ideas, but also solutions.

Our approach and strategic, cross-sector network linking universities, business and government is unlike any other. We bring our members together to leverage the skills and talent fostered by our universities and to strengthen further the UK’s world-class research and development.

This is the second in a series of linked reports on gaining the most value from UK research, and in particular its publically-funded research.

This report highlights the many benefits of publically-funded resaerch, but stresses the vital imporantce of moving beyond simple measures of success to a more nuanced understanding of the valuable connnections between public and private sectors in a successful system of knowledge production and innovation.