Home Office Research Development and Innovation strategy
Our vision for research, development and innovation to be central to the Home Office's efforts to deliver a safer, fairer and more prosperous UK.
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Research, development and innovation plays a significant role in addressing the complex challenges we face across the Home Office, helping us to develop technologies and services and build the evidence base we need to better protect the public and keep our borders secure.
This strategy takes a system-wide view to placing research, development and innovation at the centre of the Home Office’s efforts to deliver a safer, fairer and more prosperous UK.
Central to our strategy are 4 ambitions:
- a culture of innovation – fostering the conditions which encourage scientific inquisitiveness and promote an innovative mindset from the top down, helping us to draw on research, development and innovation at the earliest opportunity
- challenge-led – research, development and innovation focussed on addressing our priority policy and operational challenges, keeping us focussed on pulling research, development and innovation through for maximum impact
- capability driven – developing coherent structures and building and nurturing capabilities that focus on our challenges, accessing research, development and innovation expertise to create an effective and efficient ecosystem
- in collaboration – partnering across, and outside of, government and internationally on our common research, development and innovation interests and challenges whilst supporting efforts to build UK strategic advantage
To achieve our ambitions, our strategy has a 5-year horizon and includes a series of commitments, which will be delivered through actions to maximise the impact of research, development and innovation for the Home Office. These combine the introduction of new approaches with improvements to what we are already doing. We will realise these through a supporting implementation and evaluation plan which we will report progress on publicly.
The strategy also presents a series of case studies to highlight the impact of research, development and innovation in the Home Office and spotlights focused on our research, development and innovation interests and functions.