How can innovation support economic growth across the country?
The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee will hold the first evidence session of its inquiry into innovation, growth and the regions.
The inquiry will assess the role of the UK’s innovation ecosystem in achieving the Government’s mission to kickstart economic growth across the country.
Meeting details
In the first panel, the cross-party Committee will explore the role of universities in commercialising research through spin-outs and supporting regional growth. MPs may examine the challenges to commercialising research through spinouts, and the lessons that can be learned from successful commercialisation programmes.
There could also be questions on how universities support regional economic growth through innovation, how this can be better diffused across the country, and how the Government can support further innovation-led growth.
In the second panel, MPs will investigate the roles of catapults and hubs in fostering regional growth.
They may ask about whether catapults’ innovation model contributes to regional economic growth, and how regional innovation hubs and clusters improve local prosperity.
MPs may also examine how regional devolution can support UK innovation and local innovation ecosystems, as well as asking how these ecosystems benefit areas outside major cities.