On innovation diffusion, how do firms find out about, adopt, and embed new techniques, and technologies?
Background
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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Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
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Related UKRI funded projects
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Promoting the roles of R&D service firms in the innovation system
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
Why might this be relevant?
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.
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CambridgeIP - Collaborative Patent Landscaping and Technology Intelligence Platform
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
Why might this be relevant?
Partially relevant as it focuses on patent landscaping and technology intelligence, but does not directly address how firms find out about, adopt, and embed new techniques and technologies.
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Mapping the production, diffusion and drivers of future 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: SPF
Why might this be relevant?
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.