Through an initial consultation with key stakeholders involved in developing government policies and funding programmes, a number of key project areas were identified. These will be developed into discrete projects in 2020/21. Areas include:

• Understanding the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the ability of universities to contribute to R&D and innovation through the crisis and into recovery
• University knowledge-to-innovation commercialisation pathways and public policy design
• Improving university commercialisation data and metrics for public policy and university practice development
• International developments in university commercialisation and innovation policies and funding programmes
• Strengthening partnerships for innovation between universities, businesses and other organisations