September 2017
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Delegates at this conference considered key issues and policy priorities for supporting innovation in UK industry.
It was timed to follow the Building our Industrial Strategy Green Paper - which highlighted investment in science, research and innovation as one of ten pillars for driving growth and productivity across the UK economy - and followed the announcement of an Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, seeking to drive progress in technologies where the UK can build on existing areas of industrial and research strength. The conference was further timed to consider implications for the funding of research and development in light of the review of the Small Business Research Initiative, as well as proposals for a review of opportunities for robotics and artificial intelligence.
In the context of the announcement of £229 million of industrial strategy investment for UK R&D, delegates discussed how new funding can be allocated in the interests of maximising growth and UK competitiveness internationally - looking in particular at opportunities for improving rates of commercialisation, developing research infrastructure, and improving skills and research talent. Sessions also brought out latest thinking on the areas in which the UK can build on existing strengths in industrial technologies - such as robotics and artificial intelligence, space technologies, healthcare, manufacturing processes and materials.
