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Local Growth and the changing innovation landscape
NHS Confederation and Smart Specialisation Hub webinar series
Webinar 2:
23 November 2017
Local Growth and Innovation webinars
• New webinar series with NHS Confederation and Smart Specialisation Hub
• Series of monthly webinars from October 2017 to March 2018 looking at range of linked areas
• Free to join for all involved in health research and innovation – recorded webinars and presentations will be available from www.nhsconfed.org/localgrowth
Smart Specialisation HubScience and Innovation Audits, for the NHS Confederation
webinar
History
• Announced November 2015 by Jo Johnson, in tandem with Smart Specialisation Hub
• Intended as a bottom-up exercise in mapping areas of science and innovation strength – led by self-defined consortia
• Based around data provision supplied by Government, and hypotheses developed through local intelligence
• Bringing together many local actors from LEP, academic, business and other backgrounds
History
• Consortia invited to submit expressions of interest setting out hypotheses and premise – what are they seeking to discover or evidence? How will the process work, and whom will it involve? And what will the economic benefit be?
• Three Waves thus far, comprising varying geographies and sectoral loci
•Range from very large and contiguous (e.g. Midlands Engine Audit in Wave One) to smaller and more tightly focused (e.g. Sustainable Airports in Wave 3)
•Successful consortia offered analytical support from consultancy to assemble datasets and evidence
Audits as analysis and opportunity• Addressing a key issue – lack of
understanding of where we as a nation are strong, and how
• Construction of a place-based intelligence matrix key to better knowledge of what we’re good at, and what we need to support
• Context of local areas claiming health and life science expertise; so much of this depends on NHS actors
• Getting to the leading edge of place-based decision-making and strategy development
• Ultimately forming part of an evidence base for potential investment
• Collaborations formed valuable in themselves
Variable geographies, a range of focuses: an Audit cross-section
• Wave One resulted in five Audits. Examples include:
• The Midlands Engine – a large geography with a broad range of strengths, tightly identified: next generation transport, future food processing, energy and low carbon, and medical technologies and pharmaceuticals
• Sheffield City Region and Lancashire: an Advanced Manufacturing Corridor
• South West England and South East Wales: a self-defined geography based on common strengths in advanced engineering and digital innovation
• Wave Two saw eight reports published. Notably:
• Medical Technologies in the Leeds City Region
• Oxfordshire Transformative Technologies, with a big health element
• The Bioeconomy of the North of England
Moving forward: the future of the Audits and place-based intelligence
• Wave Three, encompassing twelve Audits, has now been announced
• This moves closer to accomplishing greater geographic coverage
• Reports are due next summer
• Monday’s Industrial Strategy white paper may reveal more on next steps and uses for the Audits themselves – important to keep momentum going and partners engaged
• Potential for a Wave Four – but regardless drive to engage remains
Oxfordshire Transformative Technologies Alliance SIA
Science and Innovation Audit
Emerging, disruptive technologies to transform business sectors, practice, and economies
The UK Economy will benefit from focused investment based on place-based excellence in specific industrial sectors, technologies, and national and international business opportunities (also known as “Smart Specialisation”)
Designed to map out local research, innovation and infrastructure strengths across the UK, the SIAs are helping to identify and build on the potential of every region across the country by making sure investment is properly targeted, and uncovering opportunities for businesses to tap into. Five audit proposals were selected in the first wave of the scheme in 2016
In November 2016 the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that Oxfordshire was one of eight more regions to carry out an SIA
What is a “Science and Innovation Audit” ?
Four key areas were developed for Oxfordshire:
• Digital Health• Space-Led Data Applications• Autonomous Vehicles• Technologies Underpinning Quantum
Computing
The geography is Oxfordshire-focussed but the SIA process involved links to five other LEPs and boundary-spanning industry partners and organisations
Our SIA’s ‘Transformative Technologies’Science & Innovation Audits – Wave 2 Summary Reports
Oxfordshire Transformative Technologies Alliance
Science and Innovation Audit
Summary Report August 2017
Purpose: To inform a strategic approach to government investment
Output: A report for Government (BEIS), with data-supported evidence for science and innovation assets and capabilities, with high-level proposals for possible investments and next steps
Timescales: Report submitted to government in May and approved for publication in September
The four technology areas offer the potential for game-changing innovation, international competitiveness and economic growth for the UK
Oxfordshire has globally significant research strengths and assets with which to drive the development of the transformative technologies, and strong links with other areas of the UK for the more mature phases of commercialisation
These transformative technologies interact and are mutually supportive. The opportunities at the interfaces offer exceptional potential for further transformative innovation and economic growth
Overarching hypothesis
Emerging technologies where the UK needs to participate
Oxfordshire is a key focus for the national capability, but other areas contribute
Clustering effect: the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
Including support from the following business partners
Identify critical points when integrating Digital Health inventions within the current healthcare system
Streamline the process of local, regional and national adoption taking into account community settings and end-users to maximise impact
Two main aims for the Digital Health workstream
Digital Health sector as part of SIA
Digital Health
Oxfordshire is home to:• Harwell Space Cluster (70 space related organisations)
• UK Space Gateway• Leading data analytics
• Environmental data sets (NERC CEH, HR Wallingford, STFC)
UK targets 10% of global space market by 2030. SIA Thesis
Oxfordshire can drive £5bn of the £40bn target by developing existing companies and related supply chain, working with other sectors &
driving inward investment
Space-led Data Applications
AV and robotics innovation, for commercialisation.
This builds on Oxfordshire’s strengths in big data, sensor technologies, and automotive manufacturing.
Demonstration spaces are needed, to refine these innovations into globally competitive, demonstrable market ready solutions.
Based on existing investment and capacity:
• Develop integrated AV test beds, and boost demonstrators
• Evidence-based business cases to integrate AV solutions into national and regional strategies (e.g. transport and housing strategies)
• Inform policy to enable adoption
• Develop a pipeline of supporting services around these new technologies
Autonomous Vehicles
Establishing strong links with a wide range of industries to help develop quantum computing technologies in line with
the needs of end users
Building and growing a skilled workforce to deliver advanced engineering solutions for a new quantum
economy for the benefit of the UK
Technologies underpinning quantum computing
Economic Impact
Science and Innovation Audit
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1. Introduction
A Science and Innovation Audit Report sponsored by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
This SIA examines inevitable technologies. There is no question that our lives and
our economy will be transformed by autonomous vehicles, quantum computers,
digital health solutions and the use of data from satellites. The only question is the
role that the UK plays in the science and innovation that shape them and the
industries that deliver them.
It is our contention that Oxfordshire’s science and innovation assets have such
scale and quality that they must be a key part of any national strategy if the UK is to
play a key role in these future industries. Decisions we make now will allow
Oxfordshire to make a transformational impact on national competitiveness and
productivity through the UK Industrial Strategy.
We do not recommend investment solely in Oxfordshire (although we do
recommend some investment in Oxfordshire), because each of these industries
requires a national strategy to deliver national results. However, we believe that
Oxfordshire’s role in nucleating clusters of new and growing businesses at this early
stage of technology development will be pivotal in the future success of the UK.
If we are successful, we estimate that these four themes will
contribute 800,000 jobs to the UK economy by 2030, of which we
believe 8% will be in Oxfordshire8.
Table 1-1: Jobs in 2030, UK revenue, and Global Market 8
Science and technology area
Jobs in 2030 UK Revenue by 2030 (£Bn)
Global Market by
2030 (£Bn)
Oxfordshire UK
Connected and autonomous vehicles
16,000 320,000 51 900
Digital health 33,000 300,000 50 1,000
Space-led data applications
10,000 100,000 40 400
Technologies underpinning quantum computing
10,000 80,000 40 800
Total 69,000 800,000 181 3,100
8 For derivations of estimates see: CAV: para. 4.38. Digital Health: para. 5.23. Space-led data applications: paras 6.4 and 9.18, and
Annex B ‘Geospatial Analysis Centre’, Economic case. Technologies underpinning quantum computing: section 7.6 and Annex B ‘UK Quantum Computing Centre’, Economic case
Science and Innovation Audit
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8. UK’s global USP: innovations at the intersections between themes
Opportunities for applications that combine technologies, for added value of investment and social benefit
8.1 Oxfordshire is uniquely placed to exploit inter-relationships between themes for
local and national benefit, because of the diversity of the science and technology
cluster in the county, as well as its strength. The dynamic interactions between
researchers, businesses and residents that are made possible by proximity means
that opportunities at the interfaces between themes can readily be identified,
understood and exploited: Oxfordshire can work as a living lab for the testing and
roll out of new technologies developed in combination. The strength of the
Oxfordshire cluster means that new ideas are more likely to secure funding and
attract the technical and management skills needed (see Chapter 2) to generate
economic and social benefits from those ideas locally, nationally and internationally.
8.2 The focal technologies have factors in common. They all depend upon or contribute
to advanced instrumentation, machine learning, computer-based vision and
imaging, and cybersecurity. Figure 8-1 illustrates these commonalities. The advent
of quantum computing will be a game-changer: currently it is a nascent technology,
but it will provide a radical level of change which will inevitably alter the capabilities
arising through the other technologies. These interdependencies present
innovation opportunities which can be identified and realised more quickly through
co-location.
Figure 8-1: Cross-cutting science, technologies, and governance
Oxfordshire Transformative Technologies SIA
Progress, and emerging themes and conclusions
Management
• Steering Group of influential stakeholders
• Strategic Advisory Board, including 9 reps from business, 6 LEPs, and 2 Universities
Themes
• Inevitable technologies: will develop with or without the UK
• Ripple effect: these technologies will draw on the highly skilled workforce in Oxfordshire but the benefits will be realised more widely. How to articulate this? – the “Grimsby question”
• Unique potential of Oxfordshire: the plethora of high-technology expertise mining the intersections between technologies, sectors, and disciplines
Ambition
• Continued, focused investment to establish globally competitive critical mass of technology exploitation and living lab demonstrators
Oxfordshire Transformative Technologies SIA
Challenges
• World-leading UK reward requires a sustained national approach
• Products, services and IP: economic models for future markets
• Cohesive geographic “place” vs distributed supply chain
Data:
• Comparative economic data for emerging sectors across the globe
• Industrial data on innovation (patents, SIC codes, employment …)
• The rear-view mirror: 2-3yr old data on rapidly changing innovations
Surprises• Industry’s dedicated appreciation of SIA’s significance
• Real opportunity to contribute to place-based investment debate
SIAs – on reflection…
Forthcoming webinar topics• Industrial Strategy – with the White Paper expected to be
published in late autumn, attention will soon be focused on the new government’s Industrial Strategy. This webinar will look at the innovation opportunities that have arisen from the White Paper and need for local organisations to press ahead with local partnerships. 15 December 2017
• The new UKRI – From April 2018 UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) will be established as a single, strategic body that will bring together the 7 Research Councils, Innovate UK and the research funding from Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). With a combined budget of more than £6 billion, UKRI will be a major voice for UK research and innovation in the UK and globally. What do NHS organisations need to know about this new and important body? January 2018
Forthcoming webinar topics• Governance of Innovation – with the local growth agenda
leading to a range of new local partnerships across England there is no one clear and consistent model of governance. Who is making decisions locally on innovation priorities and how they relate to economic growth and public service reform? The new Mayors? LEPs? Combined Authorities? How should the NHS be positioning itself in such a complex landscape? February 2018
• The Future of Devolved Funding – Questions remain about some of the core local growth funding that organisations have accessed. Does the Local Growth Fund have a future, and if so what should that future be? What do we know about the planned Shared Productivity Fund that will replace ESIF? Who will lead on this important work? March 2018
Michael WoodNHS Local Growth Advisor, NHS [email protected]@NHSLocalGrowth
Andrew Basu-McGowanPolicy Manager, Smart Specialisation Hub National Centre for Universities and [email protected]