DEVOLVED ADMINISTRATIONS’ INNOVATION ACTIVITY
INTRODUCTION
The Smart Specialisation Hub was established, following the recommendations in Encouraging a British Invention Revolution: Sir Andrew Witty’s Review of Universities and Growth, to support local and national government in the
INNOVATION ACTIVITY MAPPING Understanding place-based innovation and identifying the potential specialisms of local areas is key to making
implementation of Smart Specialisation Strategies.
better investments for increasing growth and productivity.
Since the Hub’s inception there has been increasing focus
quantitative data that makes it possible to compare place-
on the importance and uniqueness of place. We have seen
based innovation activity in a way that has not been done
the launch of the Science and Innovation Audits (SIAs) –
before. This data is mapped across relevant areas for the
that have catalysed and galvanised consortia around local
devolved administrations, including the eight Scottish
and sector strengths – and the Industrial Strategy White
Parliament Regions, the five HSC Trust Government
Paper that champions place as one of its five foundations.
Districts for Northern Ireland, and five government regions
The Hub has responded to this renewed focus on place
In this mapping, the Hub has provided a compilation of
for Wales.
by starting an analysis of innovation. Our previous work
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mapped England’s innovation activity, and now we have extended this analysis to cover innovation activity in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to complete a UK comparison. This mapping is a response to the need for a comparative representation of innovation strengths in local areas – in this case, relating to sub-geographies for the devolved administrations. It is designed to address an identified gap in existing analyses, that are either top level – offering no regional breakdown – or regionally specific and, therefore, not comparable.
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We know that the data sets we have used are limited and we accept that this is not a fully comprehensive view – and we do not present it as such. Our intention with this analysis is threefold: 1. To provide a comparable and evidenced overview of national innovation activity. 2. To allow areas to assess their comparative strengths based on activity. 3. To encourage engagement and discussion around innovation data and how it can be improved.
Devolved Administrations’ Innovation Activity offers a simple overview of evidenced innovation activity by sector across the relevant areas. This tool can be scrutinised in several ways and has been designed to help the reader: 1. Identify hot and cold spots of innovation activity nationally. 2. Search sectors to identify areas of peak activity. 3. Investigate for any particular area the sectors they are most active in. 4. Get a sense of “regional” activity. 5. Identify potential partners and potential areas to prioritise investment. Through the publication of this tool, the Hub wants to encourage informed discussion around the availability and quality of data at local and national level. This mapping is offered only as a starting point, as any attempt to effectively account for innovation assets and capabilities across the UK requires the input, insight and the buy-in of local partners. We invite and encourage feedback on this tool and particularly about evidence that you feel could strengthen and enrich our framework; sharing expertise and experience from local to national level is essential to ensuring the robustness of this tool. We look forward to hearing from you.
CONTACT info@smartspecialisationhub.org
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SOURCES & NOTES In order to gain a richer understanding of local innovation capabilities, we have employed quantitative data for this visualisation piece.
SOURCES
Capability scores were calculated using six of the Hub’s indicators that show performance of innovation in core industry sectors. THE SMART SPECIALISATION HUB’S ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK The Hub’s analytical framework, created by Hub analysts at the National Centre for Universities and Business, is geared to providing guidance on emerging strengths in innovation, curating indicators with the greatest sectoral granularity available from robust public sources. We identified a total of six indicators which show performance of innovation in core industry sectors. Those indicators fall into two groups - Innovation in research/higher education institutions, and Innovation in business/industry.
INNOVATION IN RESEARCH/HIGHER EDUCATION INDICATOR
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Staff submitted to REF across stem disciplines
Higher Education Statistics Agency, STEM disciplines, 2014
Publication output to priorities of Innovate UK
Scopus, 2012-14
Publication output to the 8 Great Technologies
Scopus, 2012-14
INNOVATION IN BUSINESS/INDUSTRY INDICATOR
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Innovate UK investment in innovation
Innovate UK, 2013-17
Number of employed FTE in technology sectors
Business Register and Employment Survey, 2015
Number of inventors on patents across various technology areas in LEP areas
Intellectual Property Organisation, 2011-14
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CAVEATS AND CONSTRAINTS REGARDING GATHERING AND INTERPRETING THE DATA 1. The Hub’s analytical framework is restricted to readily available public sources. As such, not all sectors are represented by the full set of predefined indicators. This has been corrected by weighting the final cumulative figure. 2. Whilst there are various sub-geographies available for each of the DAs, the breakdowns used for this piece were adopted due to: (i) being suitable for the Hub’s data visualisation needs/remit (not being overly granular); (ii) being geographically/politically relevant sub-geographies; (iii) being suggested/approved by staff at Innovate UK as relevant sub-geographies to proceed with. 3. Underpinning datasets have been merged to show sectoral strengths in innovation across both research and business actors. This allows for a relatively wellrounded representation of innovation strengths at the expense of granularity. 4. Sector titles in the underpinning data are not consistent. Titles have been changed in order to align the activities into identifiable groups of like industry activity. 5. We have used the latest available data but statistical data is backward-looking and there will always be some lag.
GLOSSARY OF INDUSTRIES
EMERGING & ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES
SECTOR
UNDERLYING DATA
DIGITAL SERVICES
General purpose transformative digital technologies, including the digital economy and digital technology.
ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS
Electronics, photonics and electrical systems, including sensors, semiconductors and electronic sensors.
ICT
Information communication technology, including telecoms, computer technology, information technology management and basic communication processes.
OTHER EMERGING & ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES
Areas not included in the other sectors, such as big data,
SPACE
Technologies including satellites and PNT (position
robotics and autonomous systems.
navigation and timing).
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
AGRI-TECH
Agricultural technology, including agri-food livestock, agrifood plants and crops and agri-science.
BIOSCIENCES
Includes biotechnology, organic fine chemistry and synthetic biology.
FOOD SUPPLY
Includes agriculture, food and food chemistry.
HEALTHCARE
Includes life sciences, medical technology, pharmaceuticals and regenerative medicine.
GLOSSARY OF INDUSTRIES
INFRASTRUCTURE
SECTOR
UNDERLYING DATA
AEROSPACE
Aviation, including its manufacturing and infrastructure.
BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Includes architecture, building services, engineering and building control.
ENERGY
Includes energy storage, resource efficiency, thermal energy and electrical machinery and apparatus.
SUSTAINABILITY
Includes environmental technology.
TRANSPORT
Includes maritime/marine, rail and automotive transport systems.
MANUFACTURING & MATERIALS
URBAN LIVING
Includes city systems, future cities and smart cities.
ADVANCED MATERIALS
Includes chemistry, materials chemistry, basic materials chemistry, surface technology coating and macromolecular chemistry polymers.
FOUNDATION INDUSTRIES
Includes data on traditional materials and manufacturing, composites, materials metallurgy, textile & paper machines.
HIGH-VALUE MANUFACTURING
Manufacturing that is financially successful, of strategic
NANOTECHNOLOGY
Includes micro-structural and nanotechnology.
importance or makes a positive social impact.
WHAT IS SMART SPECIALISATION? Smart Specialisation is an approach to investment in innovation that helps key local players identify and exploit the sectors in which they can claim to be world-leading.
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