The report updates on progress against the first year of UKRI’s strategy: transforming tomorrow together, and the activities set out in the corporate plan.
The report, which has been laid before parliament, includes a performance report providing a summary of UKRI’s performance and finances.
It outlines what has been delivered against the six strategic objectives in the strategy, including:
- people and careers: transforming the way we invest in talent, through the creation of a £2 billion collective talent budget
- places: co-developing pilot Innovation Accelerators with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and city region partnerships, to accelerate the growth of high-potential innovation clusters
- ideas: investing in 6,216 new research and innovation projects across the UK, allowing talented people and teams to pursue their ideas
- innovation: supporting researchers and innovators to leverage the investment they need to commercialise, grow their businesses faster, and access networks and infrastructure to enable effective, cutting-edge innovation across the UK
- impacts: launching the £250 million technology missions fund to secure the UK’s world-leading position in technologies of tomorrow including,artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, and engineering biology
- world-class organisation: improving the way we work through our organisational change programmes, including early trials of our new funding service, creating a better user experience for applicants for research and innovation funding
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