The R&D investment challenge: Moving towards a more research-intensive economy
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Dedicating resources to research and development is key to enabling innovation and the UK economy sits well below the OECD average, 1.7 per cent of GDP is spent on R&D in the UK compared to an average of 2.4 per cent across the OECD. Both the Conservative government and the opposition have set out targets to increase R&D spend as a proportion of UK GDP – up to 2.4 per cent by 2027 and 3 per cent by 2030 respectively.
This briefing note outlines how much public investment may be needed to reach these ambitions. Evidence suggests that public R&D has the potential to ‘crowd-in’ additional private R&D spending, particularly if that spending is ‘mission-based’. We factor in this crowding-in assumption to our modelling, assuming an additional £1 crowds in £1.60 over the decade that follows.
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