The UK has an excellent innovation ecosystem with strengths from the university side, where we have 14 of world's top 50 universities, through to world-leading R&D-led industries such as pharmaceuticals, aerospace and defence.
But innovation activity goes much wider than that to create an ecosystem that has real strength in depth. In many respects, the UK is leading the way on open innovation and collaboration with businesses focusing as much, or more, on design and other intangible aspects of innovation as on research and development. Our creative industries sectors, for example, operate at the forefront of fashion, music, computer games, video special effects and architecture.
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