Innovation
Pooling sector research, innovation, business transformation and service improvement resources to build sector-wide cross-departmental solutions including new technologies to network, share, aggregate information. This may be one way to collectivize the means to generate more new ideas, products and enterprises to resolve endemic social issues. It would also encourage greater input and collaboration from industry, academia and other partners.
The UK Government has designated Investment Zone status to universities. Based on the sector’s work-based learning, skills enhancement and community engagement attributes, can we become the ‘knowledge transfer on legs’ (NESTA - Connected University)?