Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 29
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UKRI plays a significant role in developing crucial skills for research commercialisation.
Conclusion
DSIT stressed that specific skills are needed to turn research into commercial success.78 Professor Grant told us that UKRI plays a much bigger role than people realise in building the skills of people who move from research into industry.79 UKRI told us it has done a lot of work to shift the incentives in the system to allow people to take a much wider range of careers, including the scope to move more fluidly between academic 72 Qq 85-86 73 Letter from DSIT, 18 June 2025 74 Q 81 75 Q 82 76 Q 81 77 Qq 50 and 82 78 Q 84 79 Q 10 17 research, forming companies, investing, and policy-making.80 DSIT added that UKRI run some programmes specifically tailored to developing the skills needed to get “from spin-out to scale-up to staying in the UK”.81