UK Trade & Investment : Inventing Tomorrow

The UK is a world leader in innovation. It has a highly-skilled, creative workforce, a world renowned academic and private sector research base and a business-friendly culture which helps incubate ground-breaking talent.
The UK’s extraordinary track record of invention and discovery reaches from the Industrial Revolution right through to the digital age and includes the steam engine, the electrical generator and the structure of DNA.
Today, the UK is Europe’s leading location for research and development, attracting investment from around the world with a research base that is second only to the USA. It has 170 universities and institutes of higher education, of which four rank among the world’s top 30 research institutes. The private sector consolidates Britain’s position as an innovation powerhouse, contributing 66 per cent of total R&D spending.
The UK Government recognizes that R&D is vital to the UK’s future, and champions innovation through a wide range of initiatives.
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