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Spin-out register visioning report: RE and UCI (PDF)
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Data and metrics serve as the foundation of Research England’s KE formula funding and policy work.
In 2023, Research England’s National KE Metrics Programme was initiated, with the aim of designing and delivering new and improved data, evidence and metrics of knowledge exchange activity of higher education providers.
The programme is carried out in partnership with the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA, part of Jisc) and, in their role as national KE metrics advisers to Research England, the Policy Evidence Unit for UCI at the University of Cambridge.
An early focus of the National KE Metrics Programme has been on data development to better capture university spin-out companies and their success, in particular on the production of a national register of spin-outs.
This visioning report, published in partnership between Research England and UCI, sets out:
- the importance of the need for improved spin-out data
- the approach taken through the metrics programme to devise and design a spin-out register to date, including key characteristics of the data required
- goals for the second stage of work on data-linking, which includes making the data more available to all