R&D firms

“The desire to better ourselves is part of the curiosity that drives science, the drive and the need to do good “(Sulston, 2008).

The UK government’s Science and Innovation Investment Framework 2004-14 has
set as a long-term objective to raise overall R&D investment to 2.5% of GDP and has
identified strategic actions to address the system’s main weaknesses. The businessled
Technology Strategy Board supports business R&D and innovation in all sectors and will identify priorities in emerging areas of technology. The government has also recently increased R&D tax credits for SMEs and large companies to encourage further business investment in R&D. The rate for large companies will rise to 130% of
qualifying R&D expenditure, and the rate for SMEs will be 175

UK is only second after US for highly cited research findings, but is doing below average OECD countries in R&D intensity, and has done lower percentage of GDP during 1980s (1.5%) to 2006 (1.1%). Although there is strong scientific activity but innovation firms hardly cooperate with public research organisations.

(OECD, 2008) http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/18/51/41559425.pdf




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