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“One company said to me, ‘what we look for in the UK is that you do the R and we’ll do the D’. If we can no longer maintain a research base which does high quality research we will lose the attractiveness of the UK.” Dr Sarah Main, Executive Director, Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE)
“It doesn’t always require money to make things happen, sometimes it just requires bringing the people together.” Kevin Baughan, Deputy Chief Executive, Innovate UK
“We’re not the only country who has a strategy to drive economic growth through science and innovation, so I think it’s really important for us to engage internationally and look for complementarities and strengths across countries in order to build on our existing expertise. Thinking about China in particular, the OECD estimates that by 2020 China will be the world’s largest spender on science and innovation having overtaken the US.” Holly White, Consultant, Rouse
“Skills is a huge focus of UKRI and when we launch we will definitely be saying quite a lot to do with skills development in the future.” Dr Gemma Bridge, Senior Strategy Advisor, Shadow UK Research and Innovation
* Unless otherwise stated, quotations are based on the transcript from the 30 January 2018 Westminster Forum, ‘The future of UK science and innovation - Brexit, the Industrial Strategy and the Knowledge Exchange Framework’ and may not have been approved by the speakers
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