Assign the extra R&D billions ‘without creating any losers’

Nesta calls for funding change so regions are not missing out on £12bn a year

The UK government can shape imbalanced R&D investment across the country but “has failed to do so”, leaving regions an estimated £12 billion a year out of pocket.

This is according to a 27 May report published by the innovation foundation Nesta, and co-authored by Richard Jones—a professor of materials physics and innovation at the University of Manchester— whose work has previously been cited by the prime minister’s chief aide, Dominic Cummings, as a way to help level up the country through science and innovation.