longer summary on the BU Research Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\nSome interesting comments:<\/p>\n
\u201c<\/em>The key UK attribute driving success in life sciences is the great strength in university-based research. Strong research-based universities underpin most of the public sector research success in the UK, as they do in the USA and in Scandinavia. National research systems based around institutes rather than universities, as seen in Germany, France and China, do not achieve the same productivity in life sciences as seen in university-focussed systems.\u201d (p22)<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cThe decline in funding of indirect costs for charity research is coupled to an increasing tendency for Research Councils to construct approaches that avoid paying indirect Full Economic Costs (FEC). Together, these are having a significant impact on the viability of research in universities and have led to the institutions raising industrial overhead costs to fill the gap. This is unhelpful.\u201d (<\/em>p24)<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cIt is also recommended, that the funding agencies, in partnership with major charities, create a high-level recruitment fund that would pay the real cost of bringing successful scientists from abroad to work in major UK university institutions.\u201d (<\/em>see the proposal to attract international scientists below).<\/em><\/p>\nOn clusters \u201cLife sciences clusters are nearly always located around a university or other research institute and in the UK include elements of NHS infrastructure. However, evidence and experience suggests that governments cannot seed technology clusters and their success is usually driven by the underpinning assets of universities and companies, and also by the cultural features of networking and recycling of entrepreneurs and capital.\u201d And \u201cRegions should make the most of existing opportunities locally to grow clusters and build resilience by working in partnership across local Government, LEPs (in England), universities and research institutes, NHS, AHSNs, local businesses and support organisations, to identify and coalesce the local vision for life sciences. Science & Innovation Audits, Local Growth Funds and Growth Hubs (in England), Enterprise Zones and local rates and planning flexibilities can all be utilised to support a vision for life sciences. \u201c (<\/em>see the proposal on clusters under \u201cGrowth and Infrastructure\u201d \u2013 this was a big theme in the Industrial strategy and something we also covered in our Green Paper response)<\/em><\/p>\nOn skills: \u201c The flow of multidisciplinary students at Masters and PhD level should be increased by providing incentives through the Higher Education Funding Council for England.2 and\u00a0 \u201cUniversities and research funders should embed core competencies at degree and PhD level, for example data, statistical and analytical skills, commercial acumen and translational skills, and management and entrepreneurship training (which could be delivered in partnership with business schools). They should support exposure to, and collaboration with, strategically important disciplines including computer and data science, engineering, chemistry, physics, mathematics and material science.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\nHealth Advanced Research Programme (HARP) proposa<\/strong>l \u2013 with the goal to create 2-3 entirely new industries over the next 10 years.<\/p>\nReinforcing the UK science offer\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Sustain and increase funding for basic science to match our international competition – the goal is that the UK should attract 2000 new discovery scientists from around the globe\n
\n- The UK should aim to be in the upper quartile of OECD R&D spending and sustain and increase the funding for basic science, to match our international competitors, particularly in university settings, encouraging discovery science to co-locate.<\/li>\n
- Capitalise on UKRI to increase interdisciplinary research, work more effectively with industry and support high-risk science.<\/li>\n
- Use Government and charitable funding to attract up to 100 world-class scientists to the UK, with support for their recruitment and their science over the next ten years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Further improve UK clinical trial capabilities to support a 50% increase in the number of clinical trials over the next 5 years and a growing proportion of change of practice and trials with novel methodology over the next 5 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Growth and infrastructur<\/strong>e \u2013 the goal is to create four UK companies valued at >\u00a320 billion market cap in the next ten years.<\/p>\nNHS collaboration<\/strong> – the Accelerated Access Review should be adopted with national routes to market streamlined and clarified, including for digital products. There are two stated goals:<\/p>\n\n- NHS should engage in fifty collaborative programmes in the next 5 years in late-stage clinical trials, real world data collection, or in the evaluation of diagnostics or devices.<\/li>\n
- The UK should be in the top quartile of comparator countries, both for the speed of adoption and the overall uptake of innovative, cost-effective products, to the benefit of all UK patients by the end of 2023.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Data <\/strong>\u2013 Establish two to five Digital Innovation Hubs providing data across regions of three to five million people.<\/p>\n\n- Create a forum for researchers across academia, charities and industry to engage with all national health data programmes.<\/li>\n
- Establish a new regulatory, Health Technology Assessment and commercial framework to capture for the UK the value in algorithms generated using NHS data.<\/li>\n
- Two to five digital innovation hubs providing data across regions of three to five million people should be set up as part of a national approach and building towards full population coverage, to rapidly enable researchers to engage with a meaningful dataset. One or more of these should focus on medtech.<\/li>\n
- The UK could host 4-6 centres of excellence that provide support for specific medtech themes, focussing on research capability in a single medtech domain such as orthopaedics, cardiac, digital health or molecular diagnostics.<\/li>\n
- National registries of therapy-area-specific data across the whole of the NHS in England should be created and aligned with the relevant charity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Skills<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- A migration system should be established that allows recruitment and retention of highly skilled workers from the EU and beyond, and does not impede intra-company transfers.<\/li>\n
- Develop and deliver a reinforced skills action plan across the NHS, commercial and third sectors based on a gap analysis of key skills for science.\n
\n- Create an apprenticeship scheme that focuses on data sciences, as well as skills across the life sciences sector, and trains an entirely new cadre of technologists, healthcare workers and scientists at the cutting-edge of digital health.<\/li>\n
- Establish Institutes of Technology that would provide opportunity for technical training, particularly in digital and advanced manufacturing areas.<\/li>\n
- There should be support for entrepreneur training at all levels, incentivising varied careers and migration of academic scientists into industry and back to academia.<\/li>\n
- A fund should be established supporting convergent science activities including cross-disciplinary sabbaticals, joint appointments, funding for cross-sectoral partnerships and exchanges across industry and the NHS, including for management trainees.<\/li>\n
- High quality STEM education should be provided for all, and the government should evaluate and implement additional steps to increase the number of students studying maths to level 3 and beyond.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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