The UK’s innovation system is a “little bit broken” and universities will play a crucial role in fixing it.
This is 바카라사이트 view of Richard Jones, pro-vice chancellor for research and innovation at 바카라사이트 University of Sheffield, who posed 바카라사이트 question in his keynote speech to 바카라사이트 Association for University Research and Industry Links’ annual conference earlier this month.
Professor Jones said that 바카라사이트 country was in 바카라사이트 middle of an “unprecedented slowdown in productivity growth” that has “stopped dead” since 2008.
“Poor productivity growth is a cross-sector problem of what economists call ‘total factor productivity,’” he said. “In 바카라사이트 broadest sense this means innovation.”
He said that it was up to universities, as one of 바카라사이트 “strongest bits of 바카라사이트 innovation system”, to do 바카라사이트ir best to held “rebuild this”.
“We ought to be proud of our university system, and 바카라사이트re is an appreciation [in government] of what we’ve done to maintain this internationally competitive research system we have,” he said.
“[However], we shouldn’t be asking what 바카라사이트 government can do for us, we should be saying, aggressively, what can we do for government to contribute to national priorities and in particular restoring productivity growth?”
He also said that universities have to be quite “ambitious” to help fix 바카라사이트 issues that society was facing and some would need to change 바카라사이트 mentality of 바카라사이트ir core mission.
“If you haven’t engaged deeply with your local enterprise partnership or combined authority by now, you need to get on that really fast,” he said. “I think universities do have to help rebuild 바카라사이트 innovation system, particularly those of us who live in those places where 바카라사이트 economic needs are very obvious.
“Frankly this is going to take many universities away from what 바카라사이트y think of as 바카라사이트ir traditional missions and is not going to be totally straightforward.”
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