Finding an alternative to Horizon is about money – but also about stitching together multi-national partnerships between universities, businesses, and global institutions.
Over at UKRI HQ this May the team took this issue head-on. In a board discussion on Horizon, it was noted that:
“The board noted that non-association would have significant but variable impacts across the business and research communities, highlighting the substantial impact on the SME community, for example. They recommended that communications take account of the different audiences and their likely reactions in the event of non-association.”
There have been tens of committees, hundreds of column inches, and umpteen discussions, on the impact of Horizon on research within universities but much less discussion on research taking place between universities and business.
