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The UK economy is in fl ux. The fi nancial turmoil of the past two years, and the depth of the resulting recession, has injected fresh urgency to debates about the structural mix of
the UK economy and future sources of wealth creation. Yet services will certainly continue to dominate economic activity for the foreseeable future. Agriculture accounts for around
1.5% of employment, manufacturing for around 10%, and services for over 80%. Services include some of the highest performing sectors of recent years-fi nancial services, business support services, retail and the creative industries among them.

Traditional innovation models and policies tend to focus on a narrow conception of innovation-mainly the support of research and development (R&D) in manufacturing industries.

The UK lacks a structured policy approach to the promotion of innovation in services. The absence of a coherent policy threatens to undermine the ability of fi rms based in the UK to
develop and maintain leading positions in highly competitive and globalised service industries.

One gap in our knowledge concerns the contribution of science to innovation in the services sectors. Recent studies of services innovation have recognised the importance of technology, but have downplayed the wider signifi cance of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and R&D in particular, arguing that much innovation in these sectors takes place in other ways. This report examines the contribution of STEM to innovation in services, now and in the future, and identifi es ways in which this can be
strengthened.

The evidence we have collected shows that STEM is deeply embedded in the UK service sectors and that its impact on service innovation processes is extensive, widely diffused and
often ‘hidden’.

 

 

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