At the Labour Party Conference earlier this week team Wonkhe held a roundtable with universities, business representatives, civic partners and policy makers on how R&D can work as the means to grow the economy and spread prosperity.
We’ve collated a handful of the best ideas from the roundtable which any policymakers, putative governments, universities, businesses, and interested parties are welcome to steal and make their own.
For context, these discussions happened just after the mini budget which led to a rapid devaluation of the pound, a rapid increase in the cost of borrowing, and the rumblings of an inflationary crisis from which the country may take decades to recover. This is to say the mood was gloomy
