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Autumn Budget 2025 – what does this mean for R&D?
27 November 2025

CaSE analysis of the Autumn Budget delivered by the Chancellor on 26 November 2025.

CaSE looks at the Government’s new framework for public R&D investment
27 November 2025

Analysis of the newly announced framework for public R&D investment, presented in speeches by Liz Kendall and Prof Sir Ian Chapman.

Analysis of DSIT R&D budget allocations
31 October 2025

DSIT has published its plans for R&D budget allocations for the financial years 2026/2027 to 2029/2030. We take a look at what the plans might mean for UK R&D funding in the coming years.

CaSE representation to Autumn Budget 2025
23 October 2025

In this submission, we set out why supporting UK R&D is an essential way to generate growth in the economy, and improve lives and livelihoods across the UK.

R&D investment is still not keeping pace with inflation
15 August 2025

The ONS have published the latest figures for R&D expenditure in the UK in 2023 (GERD). CaSE take a look at what they mean for R&D in the UK.

Parliament ‘end-of-term’ R&D policy round-up
28 July 2025

Now that Parliament has finished for the summer, here is an ‘end-of-term’ round-up of all recent CaSE analysis of Government’s plans.

Departmental R&D budgets: how is public investment divided?
24 July 2025

Following the 2025 Spending Review, CaSE takes a deeper look at the trends in R&D budget allocations to government departments and at the challenges in assessing R&D expenditure within the Ministry of Defence.

Mapping the economic returns of R&D in the UK
02 July 2025

This synthesis draws out key policy implications from the findings of a report commissioned by the British Academy and CaSE. The systems-based analysis of the strengths and weaknesses within the UK’s innovation system, ‘From Research to Productivity: A Systems Analysis of UK Innovation Pathways’, was conducted by Cambridge Econometrics.

From Research to Productivity: A Systems Analysis of UK Innovation Pathways
02 July 2025

In 2024, the British Academy and CaSE commissioned Cambridge Econometrics and the Innovation and Research Caucus to conduct this systems-based analysis of the strengths and weaknesses within the UK’s innovation system.

R&D in the 2025 Spending Review
12 June 2025

CaSE’s comprehensive analysis of the measures that impact R&D announced in the 2025 Spending Review

CaSE submission to House of Lords Financing and Scaling UK Science and Technology Inquiry
21 May 2025

CaSE’s response to the House of Lords Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee inquiry into: Financing and Scaling UK Science and Technology: Innovation, Investment, Industry.

Ten-year R&D budgets: a closer look
20 May 2025

DSIT published plans to provide long-term public funding for certain R&D activities. Policy Officer Edmund Derby looks at what has been proposed.