Addressee: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · Source location: Page 11, Rec a, first bullet
Strategic oversight: governance, strategic direction, and oversight of research
infrastructure. UKRI ? working with DSIT and other government departments
where appropriate ? should:
? assess how existing research infrastructure can be used to support
strategic government priorities and innovative companies;
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Addressee: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · Source location: Page 11, Rec a, second bullet
Strategic oversight: governance, strategic direction, and oversight of research
infrastructure. UKRI ? working with DSIT and other government departments
where appropriate ? should:
- determine the appropriate balance between research activities and
spending on infrastructure for each of the priority-focused programmes
it is establishing;
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Addressee: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · Source location: Page 11, Rec a, third bullet
Strategic oversight: governance, strategic direction, and oversight of research infrastructure. UKRI ? working with DSIT and other government departments where appropriate ? should:
? ensure that UKRI internal funding opportunities allow the priority focused programmes to develop research infrastructure in line with their priorities, enabling contributions from other government departments and the private sector where appropriate.
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Addressee: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · Source location: Page 11, Rec b
Strategic oversight: improving portfolio management. UKRI should take a broader view of portfolio management than it does currently, focusing on managing its projects so that they, collectively, achieve UKRI?s objectives. It should look to introduce more flexibility into how it manages projects such as staged funding, and it should explore whether there is scope to manage the portfolio in a way which reflects UKRI?s desire to take on more risk where this is justified by the potential reward.
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Addressee: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · Source location: Page 11, Rec c
Commissioning research infrastructure: improving business cases to support innovative research infrastructure. DSIT should build on its current work on business cases and issue authoritative guidance specific to research infrastructure projects to ensure the projects it is responsible for approving understand what information decision-makers need
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Addressee: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · Source location: Page 11, Rec d
Maintaining and utilising research infrastructure: improving financial management for maintaining and operating existing research infrastructure. UKRI should improve its financial management capabilities by developing frameworks which allow it to better understand the relative merits of spending on new infrastructure, maintaining existing infrastructure or directly funding research. UKRI should explore whether there are any internal financial management arrangements which hinder this, noting that all UKRI spending is classed as capital spending.
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Addressee: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · Source location: Page 11, Rec e
Maintaining and utilising research infrastructure: sharing good practice on research infrastructure management. UKRI should share good practice on ways to proportionately monitor the operation, successes, and challenges in the research infrastructure it invests in, and how to use this information to support future funding decisions.
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