How should policymakers best support firm-level innovation in so-called ‘weaker’ regions? My new paper in Regional Studies, Regional Science @RSRS_OA examines this issue. @QUBBusiness#QBSResearch
How should policymakers best support firm-level innovation in so-called ‘weaker’ regions? My new paper in Regional Studies, Regional Science @RSRS_OA examines this issue. @QUBBusiness#QBSResearch
Our new report with London Economics shows that UK higher education and research contributes a massive £265 BILLION to the economy.🌟
#UniversityImpact@LE_Education
Find out more: https://t.co/W8d5vxiXDx
V good @FT@timleunig piece, with hard truths about UK economy & what needs to be done about it, relevant to both parties
This para is striking - small firms are lionised, but it's big firms that drive productivity & R&D, & we don't have enough of them
https://t.co/PMCVXB6Mrs
There has been a great deal of discussion about *what* our industrial policy should fund — but far less about *how* to fund it.
That needs to change, because the status quo — industrial-policy-by-tax credit — is rife with problems.
My latest:
https://t.co/cGNPEeNFhb
There is huge potential to improve government by securely linking and analysing data held across many different parts of it. We need robust political leadership to make this the rule, not the exception, writes our Chair Sir Robert Chote⬇️
https://t.co/5XjVc2dJ3X
Great to be quoted by @TheEconomist in a piece that highlights @NovaSBE ability to attract international students/faculty, while fostering Portugal's progress in attracting and integrating skilled talent: "Portugal is something of a model in this respect." https://t.co/wGXXFJTgZa
How attractive is your region?
The @OECD_local Directorate of the @OECD has developed an amazing tool to help policymakers understand how the places they govern can better attract talent, investors and visitors.
Discover more here:
https://t.co/atlHJ4yInV
The long term sources of growth are ideas, R&D, technology and its adoption argues @danielsusskind (which implies a rather central role for @SciTechgovuk)
https://t.co/MEYPDPtLh9
Another great hope of the UK's tech industry falls into foreign ownership. Not sure what to think of this - clearly Graphcore needs backers with deep pockets to realise its potential, but what stops UK capital markets playing that role?
Ownership = control, and that matters.
The next EU R&I Framework Programme (#FP10) should strengthen synergies between funding instruments and programmes at European and national levels. 🇪🇺
Read more about this and other recommendations in EUA's vision:
https://t.co/OXnQkhUPEz
Over the last decade we’ve seen the rise of university policy institutes. (I’m involved with @policyatkings@BennettInst@UCLPolicyLab personally). It’s great to see @CAPE_acuk has done some lesson learning on what works
https://t.co/AP6cUE0SeU