The UK’s 30 year experiment in innovation policy is crumbling: universities can no longer be responsible for all of society’s R&D

The UK fares very well in international comparisons of the research and development intensity of the higher education sector, with 26 per cent of this research taking place in universities. However, Richard Jones fears that universities soon won’t be able to meet the expectations being placed on them and the country risks condemning itself to a low innovation, low growth economy.