COLLABORATION PROGRESS MONITOR 2016 ENGLAND, NORTHERN IRELAND, SCOTLAND, WALES
The National Centre’s Collaboration Progress Monitor follows the depth and breadth of university-business collaboration over time. The Progress Monitor is a tool for:
•• Identifying the various connections between universities and business (such as graduate employment, Innovate UK projects with academic partners, patents granted etc.).
•• Zooming in from broad innovation indicators to focus exclusively on collaboration indicators. The Monitor assesses progress across four categories: resources for collaboration, knowledge flows between universities and business, partnerships, and commercialisation activity. The performance of each indicator is compared with its own four-year average to separate indicators that are growing (above the average), from those that are falling (below the average) over time. This also allows to account for trade-offs between indicators that are related to one another, such as quantity and size (see table on back page).
English universities are increasing the number of partnerships with small and medium sized businesses, while concentrating resources for larger businesses, maintaining the number but increasing the size of each partnership. Innovate UK grants with English academic partners are also increasing in number and in size. Commercialisation outputs of English universities are growing, but the number of spin-offs active after three years remains static. Northern Irish universities are maintaining the count and size of partnerships with large businesses, while concentrating resources in a smaller number of larger deals with small and medium sized businesses. Innovate UK grants with academic partners in Northern Ireland are growing in number and declining in size. Income from licensing is stable in Northern Irish universities despite the growing number of licenses granted. Counts of patents are
falling but this indicator fluctuates year-onyear, so it is worth revising the trend when more data become available. Scottish collaboration landscape, as shown in the monitor, is largely stable, with increasing commercialisation activity demonstrated by the higher number of licenses granted and spin-offs active after three years, together with the growing income from licensing. Welsh universities are reducing the count and increasing the size of partnerships with small and medium sized businesses, therefore concentrating resources for smaller business, while partnerships with large businesses are decreasing in size. Innovate UK grants with Welsh academic partners are stable in number but falling in size. Income from licensing is stable but this may be compensated over time with a growing number of licenses and patents granted.
Collaboration Progress Monitors for England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales Industry income for KE
Industry income for KE
Graduate employment
Spin-offs
England
Patents granted
Patents granted
HEI deals with SMEs
Income from licensing
£M per deal with SME
Licences granted
HEI deals with Large business
£M per Innovate UK academic grant
Innovate UK academic grants
Industry income for KE Spin-offs Patents granted
Income from licensing
£M per deal with SME
Licences granted £M per Innovate UK academic grant
HEI deals with Large business
Innovate UK academic grants
£M per deal with Large business
£M per deal with SME
Licences granted
HEI deals with Large business
Innovate UK academic grants
£M per deal with Large business
2015
Industry income for KE
Graduate employment HEI deals with SMEs
Scotland
HEI deals with SMEs
Income from licensing
£M per Innovate UK academic grant
£M per deal with Large business
4yr Average
Northern Ireland
Graduate employment
Spin-offs
Spin-offs Patents granted
HEI deals with SMEs
Income from licensing
£M per deal with SME
Licences granted £M per Innovate UK academic grant
Graduate employment
HEI deals with Large business
Innovate UK academic grants
£M per deal with Large business
Wales
Indicators
England
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Wales
2015 Average*
2015
2015 Average*
2015
2015 Average*
2015
2015 Average*
2015
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1
Industry income for KE (excluding licensing)
38.3%
41%
31.2%
29.8%
56.3%
53.2%
29.4%
28.3%
2
Graduate employment in innovative sectors
40.2%
39.2%
44%
43.7%
41.2%
39.3%
36.4%
36.3%
3
HEI deals with SMEs
56,984
62,981
1,730
1,523
12,932
12,698
1,523
1,416
4
£ per deal with SME
£2,335
£2,307
£2,507
£2,627
£2,139
£2,065
£3,292
£3,709
5
HEI deals with Large business
19,394
19,092
599
603
3,335
3,416
1,072
1,107
6
£ per deal with Large business
£24,174
£27,051
£13,091
£12,902
£23,778
£23,030
£12,457
£10,240
7
Innovate UK academic grants
429
499
22
31
67
72
27
28
8
£ per Innovate UK academic grant
£136,355
£144,664
£105,386
£98,686
£128,943
£142,049
£105,231
£91,598
9
Licenses granted
3,395
3,980
71
129
369
470
257
325
£57.4
£73.5
£75
£78.8
£62.4
£68.1
£1.4
£1.3
758
802
57
31
96
99
17
31
684
683
49
53
168
184
89
93
10 Income from licensing £M 11 Patents granted 12
Spin-offs active after three years
*4 year average
For more information about the National Centre’s Collaboration Progress Monitor, please contact: Inga Sileryte, Research Analyst: inga.sileryte@ncub.co.uk