Analysis & publications

Our insights from the Conservative and Labour Party Conferences and some of the messages that emerged for research and innovation.

CaSE is launching its next major project of work, a focused look at the needs of business R&D in the UK.

This year has seen the CaSE team grow, our first in person Annual Lecture since the pandemic, and the publication of two major pieces of our work.

This is the news we’ve all been waiting for, the UK and EU have finally agreed a deal on the UK’s association to Horizon Europe.

We look at the number of students who chose to take A-levels, Highers, and GCSEs in STEM-related subjects.

The Office for National Statistics have published the latest figures for R&D expenditure in the UK here we look at what they mean and project ahead to 2024/25.

CaSE Deputy Executive Director Daniel Rathbone discussing increases to the immigration health surcharge, and additional cost for skilled workers wanting to live and work in the UK.

We have publishing new data from our ongoing public opinion research, which explores people’s reactions to different written and visual framings of R&D related concepts.

Planned increases to visa and immigration fees could undermine the UK’s ambitions for research and innovation.

The Discovery Decade team is working to translate the findings of its audience research into practice through a series of place-based workshops. Ben Bleasdale and Rebecca Hill introduce this next phase of the project and discuss the first workshop, which was held in Belfast.

In this piece we bring together some of the sector’s views and recommendations on the skills needed to make the UK a more research and innovation intensive economy.

This briefing considers demographic differences in attitudes to R&D in CaSE’s Discovery Decade 2022-23 public attitudes study.