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The Big Innovation Centre's contribution to the Shakespeare Review, commissioned by the Data Strategy Board for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

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This report for UKTI investigates what drives the investment or procurement decisions of multinational firms.

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Self-driving cars exist, but they are a long way from taking over the roads. What would need to happen before we all travel in driverless cars?

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Markets for new technologies do not emerge instantaneously – they have to be imagined and made. This report looks at how government can help create new markets.

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This article identifies five trends in big data and advanced analytics, and suggests what they might hold for innovation and competitive advantage. It also suggests organisations that have historically invested heavily in technology and technological solutions for the purpose of managing and analysing data must not lose sight of at least six other key organisational considerations.

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Peer-to-peer lending and equity crowdfunding platforms provide online marketplaces which link individuals and businesses to small-scale investors. These fast-growing online marketplaces for equity and for loanable funds offer the prospect of an alternative source of funding for small businesses as well as new business opportunities for the digital firms that create and run them. But there is concern that users of the sites are not adequately protected. As well as leaving users open to fraud and mismanagement of their money, the growth potential of responsible and useful platform operators could be stifled if potential users are put off.

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3D printing has the potential to transform the manufacturing industry and drive growth. This report looks at what such a radical technology means for government policy.

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Our response to the Intellectual Property Office's Hooper Consultation, which put forward the claim that copyright licensing was not adequate for the digital age.

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Drawing on case studies of the corporate partners of the Big Innovation Centre, this report examines how major corporations are realising value from Open Innovation. It concludes that corporations need to focus squarely on setting their cultural ‘default’ to automatically consider being open for each new innovation activity – rather than only exceptionally, as is currently often the case.

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This report forms part of the evidence base needed to improve the intellectual property system for design. It examines how UK design figures in the global economy, and considers how the intellectual property system can best support its growth.

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This report looks at innovation through the lens of consumer spending, focusing on the markets that have been fastest growing and most innovative over the past decade and a half. We consider how consumer preferences have changed, and what impact these changes have had on the shape of the UK economy and its trade performance.

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This report outlines the complex issue of visa distribution and offers recommendations to government to ensure that immigration policy is best contributing to the UK workforce, ensuring that international students remain a valuable source of high-level skills for the UK knowledge economy.

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Focusing on open service innovation platforms, this report researches the strategic use of intellectual property and IPR for value creation, and the obstacles that firms experience in the process. The key lesson is that many IPR instruments can enable open business models, but that no instrument is free of obstacles. Policy must be flexible and neutral, and eliminate the efficiencies faced by firms in the IP system.

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This briefing note dives into the detail of new data on applications to higher education institutions for 2012. It looks to map how changes are being felt by our diverse range of higher education providers.

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