Research and analysis

Making innovation matter

Analysis of the enablers and barriers to innovation diffusion and adoption (IDA).

From:
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Published
25 April 2023

Documents

Making Innovation Matter: how the UK can benefit from spreading and using innovative ideas

Ref: DSIT Research Paper Number 2023/009

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Details

The report brings together insights on how the UK can boost innovation diffusion and adoption (IDA). Better IDA is needed to maximise the impact of innovation on the UK economy.

The key findings from the report are:

  • funding, praise, status and incentives are often centred around having and owning an idea, as opposed to its successful application at scale
  • there are many possible solutions to improve IDA, such as leveraging place-based specialisms to create new clusters
  • we need better information and data on what works and how different sectors are affected
Published 25 April 2023