The Sainsbury Review of UK Science and Innovation was published on Friday. Among the recommendations are included:
- doubling of the number of Knowledge Transfer Partnerships and extending these further to FE Colleges
- 'More support to business facing universities' through the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) though probably on a formula basis
There are clear links with the Leitch Review and the promise of funding suggests that this would be something worth pursuing. In my opinion the overlap between 'third stream funding' for Universities and sale of accredited HE provision is currently under-developed.