Select committee: Foreign Affairs Committee
Recommendation 6
2nd Report - A cautious embrace: defending democracy in an age of autocracies
Published 5 Nov 2019
Paragraph 26
Addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
We welcome the Government’s use and promotion of ‘trusted research’ and academic technology approval schemes to protect UK universities from intellectual theft that may arise from academic collaboration with universities from autocratic states. The Government should continue to support such schemes and provide up- 18 A cautious embrace: defending democracy in an age of autocracies to-date guidance to universities on the political, diplomatic and legal implications of accepting funding and pursuing collaboration with institutions based in non- democratic states.
From: Foreign Affairs Committee, 2nd Report - A cautious embrace: defending democracy in an age of autocracies (HC 109), paragraph 26, 5 November 2019
Government response
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