Increasing investment in science and innovation is a key part of the Government’s plan for growth. To help achieve this, it has invested in ‘science and innovation campuses’, which are designed to encourage businesses and academics to collaborate.
How can Government and its agencies work out whether the campuses have been successful and how much to invest in them? In the first of our latest Insights: Carry on collaborating, we argue that standard ‘economic impact assessment’ techniques are not well suited to this task and instead the approach should be tailored to the nuances of the sector.
