TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION: Universities fear being shut out of EU innovation push

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Another way that researchers could end up as part of the EIC vision is through business secondments. Luke Georghiou, vice-president for research and innovation at the University of Manchester, and an adviser to a recent EU report on public innovation spending, has argued that many companies are stuck using “off-the-shelf technologies” because they are locked out of new knowledge.

“So, what you might do is have a scheme that subsidises a doctoral researcher to go and work on a company problem. You create a job for them, but you also give that company the capability not only of what that person is doing for them, but all the networks that they bring with them,” he suggested to Horizon, the EU’s research and innovation magazine.