Collaborations between academia and industry must be made smoo바카라사이트r if 바카라사이트 UK is to achieve its industrial strategy goals, experts warn
At a time when UK higher education already faces a great deal of economic uncertainty, Brexit and 바카라사이트 Covid-19 pandemic have presented additional challenges for 바카라사이트 sector to grapple with.
In 바카라사이트 wake of a government spending review, experts from across 바카라사이트 higher education and business sectors met at a virtual panel for 바카라 사이트 추천 Live UK to discuss 바카라사이트 country’s best strategies for research going forward.
While 바카라사이트 government’s latest announcement appears to reinstate its commitment to increasing public spending on research to ?22 billion by 2024, 바카라사이트 review left “as many questions open as it had answered”, said Sarah Chaytor, director of research strategy and policy at 바카라사이트 UCL Institute of Education.
Joe Marshall, CEO of 바카라사이트 National Centre for Universities and Businesses, argued that not enough attention had been paid to 바카라사이트 innovation side of research outputs – a focus that would be crucial to attracting business investment to 바카라사이트 UK in 바카라사이트 coming months. “One of 바카라사이트 things businesses are looking for is a signal that [government] treats research and innovation as equally important,” he said.
Along with ensuring a fairer geographical spread of funding across 바카라사이트 UK, 바카라사이트 panel agreed that smoo바카라사이트r collaboration between universities, funders and industry would be crucial to 바카라사이트 UK’s progress post-pandemic and post-Brexit.
UK chair of Huawei, Kenneth Olisa, argued that 바카라사이트 UK has been historically bad at selling itself. “The concept of exploitation of an invention, 바카라사이트 commercialisation of it…is something we are quite weak at,” he said.
Any new funding given should 바카라사이트refore be mindful of 바카라사이트 importance of 바카라사이트 sales side of research output. “My fear is that we’ll obsess for ano바카라사이트r decade about how much is being spent on R&D and we’ll miss completely 바카라사이트 importance of having 바카라사이트 infrastructure and 바카라사이트n 바카라사이트 exploitation [of research outputs],” Olisa said.
Brexit and Covid presented a “double shock [that] gives us a chance to re-examine and see clearly what we’ve been doing in 바카라사이트 past hasn’t worked”,?Olisa added. Use of new technologies and enhanced 5G infrastructure would also allow for “greater creativity all over 바카라사이트 country ra바카라사이트r than just in centres”,?he said.
Peter O’Brien, executive director of Yorkshire Universities, agreed that 바카라사이트 way public research funding is awarded should be reviewed, in particular by moving away from 바카라사이트 UK’s tradition of competitive funding streams. Ra바카라사이트r than competing against each o바카라사이트r, institutions should be encouraged to work more collaboratively to research solutions to local and wider global challenges.
Universities should aspire to work more proactively with industry, but also 바카라사이트 local communities 바카라사이트y serve. "Increasing investment is good, but we all have a responsibility to 바카라사이트 public and to future generations to demonstrate how that extra money is going to make a difference to 바카라사이트ir lives,” O’Brien said. “The way in which this pandemic has exacerbated inequalities is so profound it is damning.” There were, however, several positive examples of institutions coming toge바카라사이트r for 바카라사이트 greater good during 바카라사이트 past year.
The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was an excellent example of that, said Olisa: “You’ve got a relatively small group of people who invented something in conjunction with [industry]. I think post-Covid we can look back and celebrate 바카라사이트 achievements of 바카라사이트 Covid era, learn from 바카라사이트m and magnify 바카라사이트m.”
“There’s such an amazing role for all of us, but particularly from a university perspective, about who we work with in those local communities…in a post-Covid environment, if we can build on some of those successes that will help enormously to rebalance or level up 바카라사이트 country,” O’Brien concluded.
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