The UK government should create a £25 million-a-year “research security fund” to help universities fend off attempts to steal their intellectual property (IP), the Russell Group has said.
In a letter to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt published on 17 October, the group representing 24 research-intensive universities urges the ministers to set aside resources to help institutions build specialist security teams to “to disrupt hostile attempts to interfere in the UK’s world-leading university research”.
