Recommendation 26

We recommend that the Department for Business & Trade and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology now conduct a review of the UK’s public research and innovation institutions to ensure they are in alignment with the industrial strategy and that there is clear institutional leadership of research and development for the eight priority sectors, for example by ensuring a lead Catapult in each sector. In particular, the Government should focus on ensuring that the UK has an effective system in place to help UK firms commercialise their innovations in the UK. We recommend the review looks at the lessons the UK can learn from institutions in other countries, such as Fraunhofer Centres in Germany. (Recommendation, Paragraph 113)