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Research, development and innovation (RDI) landscape review: engagement update (January 2022)

Updated 22 November 2023

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Since the publication of the terms of reference for the Review of the Research, Development and Innovation Organisational Landscape (RDI Landscape Review), there has been an active programme of engagement conducted by the lead reviewer, Sir Paul Nurse. This engagement has been supported by a secretariat team based in BEIS.

We are engaging widely across the RDI landscape, speaking with public, private and third sector research-performing organisations across different sectors and scientific disciplines, as well as from all parts of the UK. As of January 2022, conversations have been held with the following types of organisations:

  • research institutes (public, private and co-funded)
  • public sector research establishments
  • universities
  • catapults
  • business and industry organisations
  • national academies
  • independent research and technology organisations
  • charities

Engagement for the Review is continuing through early this year.

RDI Landscape Review: Scoping Group and Sounding Board

Sir Paul Nurse has convened a group of representatives across the research, development and innovation landscape based in the UK and internationally, in order to support the development of the RDI Landscape Review. Members are invited to contribute their experience and expertise, comment on the emerging thinking from the Review, and offer constructive challenge. Membership does not attract any remuneration.

A Scoping Group has supported Sir Paul Nurse to date. The Scoping Group will also now form part of a wider Sounding Board that will comment on drafts of the report. The planned publication of a final report on the Review is early Summer 2022.

The Scoping Group and Sounding Board will be supported by the BEIS Secretariat.

Scoping Group members

  • Lord David Willets PC FRS HonFRSC FAcSS, President, Resolution Foundation
  • Sir Anton Muscatelli FRSE FAcSS, Principal, University of Glasgow
  • Sir Adrian Bird CBE FRS FRSE FMedSci, Buchanan Professor of Genetics, University of Edinburgh
  • Demis Hassabis CBE FRS FREng FRSA, Chief Executive Officer, DeepMind
  • Professor Nicole Grobert, Professor of Nanomaterials and Associate Head of Department (Research), Department of Materials, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford
  • Grazia Vittadini, Chief Technology & Strategy Officer, Rolls-Royce PLC

Further Sounding Board members

  • Dr Erin O’Shea, President, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
  • Dr Fabiola Gianotti, Director General, The European Laboratory for particle physics (CERN)
  • Dr Peter Gruss, President and Chief Executive Officer, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
  • Professor James Naismith FRS FRSE FMedSci, Professor of Structural Biology at the University of Oxford and Director of the Rosalind Franklin Institute
  • Professor Andrew Thompson CBE, Professor of Global and Imperial History, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
  • Dr Anna Valero, Senior Policy Fellow, London School of Economics Centre for Economic Performance and Deputy Director, Programme on Innovation and Diffusion
  • Professor Hywel Thomas CBE FREng FRS FLSW, President, the Learned Society of Wales
  • Prof Sir Menelas (Mene) Pangalos DSc PhD FRSB FMedSci HonFBPhS, EVP & President BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca
  • Dr Adrian Johnston MBE, Director of Strategic Business Development, Catalyst NI
  • Ayantika Mitra, Business Strategy Director and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, TISICS Metal Composites
  • Dr Paul Howarth FREng, Chief Executive Officer, National Nuclear Laboratory
  • Dr Harold Varmus, Professor of Medicine, Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University
  • Julia King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge DBE FRS FRAeS FInstP CEng FREng, former Non-Executive Director, Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult and former Chair of the Sir Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials
  • Dr Hayaatun Sillem CBE, Chief Executive Officer, Royal Academy of Engineering

RDI Landscape Review: invitation for views

Through our engagement across the organisational landscape, stakeholders are continuing to share their knowledge and expertise with us of how research-performing organisations and the wider landscape operate and work together.

We are inviting stakeholders that may wish to share further views on the Review, including reflections on the R&D landscape and the research-performing organisations within it, to send views to RDstrategy@beis.gov.uk for consideration during the Review process.

Please keep submissions to a maximum of 2,000 words or 4 A4 pages, and include ‘RDI Landscape Review - Invitation for Views Submission’ in the email subject line.

Deadline

Please respond by: 5pm Friday 18 February 2022.

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