REF

The report The nature, scale and beneficiaries of research impact  launched at a conference hosted by HEFCE at the Royal Society. This report provides an initial assessment of the 6,679 non-redacted impact case studies that were submitted to the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF). A novel mix of text-mining techniques and qualitative analysis was used to synthesize the corpus of case studies.

The Autumn Statement was the one that everyone was waiting for, but to keep us busy the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) published a review of the Catapult Network at Innovate2014, in early November. It was a positive report for a relatively new initiative, recommending more resources additional sector hubs. Catapults came up again in the House of Commons Business Innovation and Skills Committee’s review of Business-University collaboration.