If the world needs more entrepreneurs, why aren’t more female students choosing that path?
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We loved this article that highlights the need for inclusive entrepreneurship curricula and diverse success stories to address the gender divide in entrepreneurship
Foundations for Growth and Competitiveness 2026
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This new report investigates growth and competitiveness across OECD countries, and recommends strengthening links between businesses and academia through public R&D investment and more coordinated innovation policies
Felt outcomes not fine words: Why universities need a public value story
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Another great article from this morning stresses the need to stop thinking about impact as just research dissemination, and instead recognise the value of partnerships and genuine engagement
The policy system needs more social science
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We loved this article on @wonkhe.bsky.social from earlier this month highlighting the importance of the social sciences for ARIs and policy engagment
#ResearchImpact #ARIs #AcademicSky #PolicyEngagement
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📣 @dbaa-exeter.bsky.social are calling for higher education partners to trial researcher training and networking.
Expressions of interest for this funded opportunity are open and will close on 1 May 2026.
You can find all of the details in the link below:
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Flying Blind: Innovation, Growth and the Regions
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This new report warns that the UK is “flying blind” when it comes to supporting regional innovation. Recommendations address HE IP policies, tech transfer practices, and regional engagement mechanisms
Innovate UK: turning breakthrough ideas into industry giants
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@innovateuk.bsky.social released a new strategy outlining its plans to support innovative businesses in six priority sectors. It plans to fund fewer businesses, but provide more tailored support
DSIT’s investment in research infrastructure
www.nao.org.uk/reports/dsit...
Last week, the @nao.org.uk released a report on DSIT’s investment in research infrastructure, including UKRI’s funding in this area and the possible role of private sector investment
#ResearchFunding #UKRI #DSIT
Regional Areas of Research Interest: Challenges, opportunities and next steps
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This UPEN report explores how ARIs can be improved to better enable regional policy engagement. We loved their recommendation to create clearer definitions of impact for evaluating projects!
Investment Insights on investment data from 2025 2026
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Earlier this month, Beauhurst released this report on investment into UK spinouts in 2025, finding that investment was down last year
#Spinouts #Commercialisation
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New case study! Dr Victoria Salmon: research-charity collaboration puts pregnancy research into practice
Find out more: business-aware-academics.org/case-studies...
New Case Study! Digital health collaborations to solve impulsive eating and support heart failure patients.
Read the full case study here:business-aware-academics.org/case-studies/dr-sam-van-...
UKRI funding update
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@ukri.org CEO Sir Ian Chapman has released more information this week about the updated UKRI funding model. This letter sent to the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee includes a Sankey diagram of the high-level changes
What do researchers do?
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We were very interested to read @vitae-news.bsky.social's newest ‘What do researchers do?’ report this week. Among other findings, they found that the rates of PhD graduates remaining in academia were down to 41% for 2022/23 doctoral graduates
UK Doctoral Graduates’ Contribution to Innovation
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A report from the Innovation & Research Caucus showed a clear link between PhD students’ publications and their later impacts on UK innovation (measured via post-PhD publications and citations in patent applications)
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Some of our recent favourites:
#AcademicSky #PhDSky #PhDChat
Postgraduate Research Experience Survey 2025
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We were very interested to read the results of the 2025 PRES survey this week, which found that 30% of respondents engaged with non-academic partners in 2024/25
UKRI artificial intelligence research and innovation strategic framework
www.ukri.org/publications...
@ukri.org released their new AI strategic framework this week. Their commitment to delivering AI training for researchers resonates with our survey of businesses from last year
Becoming Universities: The Progress of England’s New HEIs
www.edge.co.uk/documents/60...
This new report from @edgeuk.bsky.social reviewed how England’s newest universities have developed. We were particularly interested in their section on external partners
#AcademicSky
New collaborative models of knowledge exchange are needed
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This article on @wonkhe.bsky.social last week, from Kim Stuart and Audrey Cumberford, shares a new initiative in Scotland to support smaller institutions to engage in #KnowledgeExchange
#AcademicSky
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Strong research–industry partnerships don’t happen by accident, they grow through curiosity, shifting mindsets and the willingness to collaborate.
Professor Mark Cragg shares his top tips, and the principles that helped him foster industry relationships.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/2v5sartn
Towards a unified policy and evidence capacity for the UK research and innovation system
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This new report from the Innovation and Research Caucus compares the UK’s use of evidence in policy-making, drawing comparisons between the UK and eight other OECD countries
Open letter from Ian Chapman to research and innovation community
www.ukri.org/news/open-le...
Sir Ian Chapman, Chief Executive of @ukri.org, shared an open letter on Sunday addressing recent changes to UKRI funding. We look forward to hearing the detail of these changes as they emerge
Deepening university-investor links: a review by Tony Hickson
www.ukri.org/publications...
We were delighted to be mentioned in this new Research England report by Tony Hickson. We couldn't agree more with his suggestions of increased tailored, experiential learning for researchers
We're sharing the publications, events, and opportunities from around the HE sector that feed into the DBAA project’s goal of supporting PGRs and ECRs to engage beyond academia and transform their ideas into action
Some of our recent favourites:
#AcademicSky #PhDSky #PhDChat #AcademicChat
Policies in doctoral education
www.eua.eu/publications...
The second set of results from @eua.eu’s EUA-CDE survey have been released, with some great insights into academic-industry collaboration at the doctoral level. Well worth a read - chapter 3 was especially relevant for our work!
#PhDSky
Sussex institutions unite to launch landmark Civic University Agreement
www.sussex.ics.nhs.uk/sussex-insti...
Great to see project partner University of Sussex, alongside @uniofbrighton.bsky.social and the University of Chichester, sign a new Civic University Agreement with local partners