BEIS plans to boost productivity and improve lives by tackling society’s Grand Challenges in life sciences, artificial intelligence, automation and space. By investing in R&D and innovation, we will unleash potential and work towards making the UK a science superpower. To do this, BEIS needs research to better understand:
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
R&D service firms offer specialised R&D services to other parts of the economy. They are a key source of external knowledge for other businesses. Firms operating in the UK R&D service sector rose from 2,642 i...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Manchester
The project explores the innovation process in R&D service firms, which includes adoption and embedding of new techniques and technologies, but does not specifically address how firms find out about these innovations.
Global corporations’ innovation strategies and business models increasingly focus on Open Innovation, cross-licensing, collaborations and technology standards. SMEs and business incubators/accelerators increasingly expec...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: CAMBRIDGE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LIMITED
The project discusses the diffusion of technology and innovation, but does not specifically address how firms find out about, adopt, and embed new techniques and technologies.
We propose to map and track the state of technological change in the UK, understand its drivers, impacts and help to improve the UK's productivity record via our collaboration and engagement with industry and policymaker...
Funded by: UKRI
Lead research organisation: University of Warwick
The project aims to map and track the state of technological change in the UK, understand its drivers, impacts and help to improve the UK's productivity record, which directly addresses the question.