Innovate UK

(asked on 8th September 2015) - View Source
Questioner
Chuka Umunna Portrait
Chuka Umunna
(Liberal Democrat - Streatham)

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much public funding was spent by Innovate UK (a) in total and (b) under each of its programmes in each financial year since 2010-11; and what proportion of that spending was on research and development in each such year.

Answered by
Lord Johnson of Marylebone Portrait
Lord Johnson of Marylebone
This question was answered on 17th September 2015

Innovate UK’s total expenditure by financial year and under each of its programmes since 2010/11 is:

Programme

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

£'000

£'000

£'000

£'000

£'000

Thematic (incl Collaborative R&D

259,486

124,824

132,449

186,312

181,029

Catalysts & Launchpads)

Micro/Nanotech Centres

334

2,009

887

598

919

Knowledge Transfer Networks

18,135

17,409

14,406

16,166

11,288

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships

30,456

16,338

17,269

14,023

12,345

EU programmes

4,065

2,691

-828

194

5,660

Legacy

26

-

-

-

-

Small Business Research Initiative

1,647

2,824

3,264

5,889

4,957

Innovation Research Centres

50

-

-

-

-

European Space Agency

50,678

-

-

-

-

Grant for R&D/Smart

-

20,277

32,982

42,370

48,166

Catapult Centres

-

42,413

85,449

153,271

135,528

Non-core projects[i]

-

33,852

63,493

104,750

136,104

Innovation Vouchers

-

-

487

2,211

2,034

Total Programme

364,877

262,637

349,858

525,784

538,030

Total Expenditure

396,275

299,856

397,664

576,392

597,478

Funding under all the above programmes was provided in support of business-led innovation and R&D.

[i] These are programmes for which Innovate UK is the delivery partner for Government, for which specific additional funding is provided, but which fall outside Innovate UK’s core innovation programme budget, e.g. Aerospace Technology Institute.

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