On the 9 February I did a lecture at the think-tank Policy Exchange, on the subject “Can we level up research and innovation?”.
The talk had three parts:
On the relationship between Research and Development, productivity and regional growth: why it’s important to level up R&D;
On levelling up R&D in the White Paper: what government has committed to – and what remains to be done;
On levelling up R&D in practice in a city region: Innovation Greater Manchester and the Innovation Accelerator pilot.
The lecture can be watched on YouTube here, and the slides can be downloaded here: (PDF) Levelling up R&D.