It is well evidenced that public funding of R&D plays a pivotal role in encouraging private-sector innovation. This support acts as a catalyst, boosting the confidence of businesses to invest in new, often high-risk but potentially revolutionary research areas.
In this report NCUB estimates that in the UK each £1 of public R&D stimulates between £0.60 to £1.10 of private R&D investment in the short term, and between £3.09 to £4.02 in the long term.
Read a fact sheet with the key findings here.
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