UK regional innovation pilots ‘should shun Silicon Valley myth’

Plan to ‘level up’ UK research funding ‘unambitious’

Comparison with current data suggests government proposals are ‘not exactly a revolution in the funding balance’, say experts

By Jack Grove

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UK regions promised research funding boost under ‘levelling up’

Forty per cent increase in investment by 2030 pledged, with BEIS ring-fencing majority of its spending for areas beyond golden triangle

By Chris Havergal

2 February

A general view of an old cotton mill in Oldham with the city of Manchester on the horizon, 2020

Innovation theorist challenged to walk the talk on ‘levelling up’

Richard Jones has chance to put into practice influential theories on boosting regions through research and development with role in new Innovation GM

By John Morgan

5 May

American actor Jack Haley as Hickory/The Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz', 1939

Want to be an innovation hot spot? Don’t copy Silicon Valley

Toronto professor offers path to ‘innovation in real places’, arguing that prestige research universities aren’t that important

By John Morgan

9 February

UK regional innovation pilots ‘should shun Silicon Valley myth’

Levelling-up plans for ‘innovation accelerators’ bring hope for local decisions on R&D, but warnings against Whitehall’s ‘Stanford-Silicon Valley’ concept

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