Funding innovation: How R&D and IP can help boost the exit value of investments

Encouraging better business growth

Investing in innovative businesses has never been more important because they have the potential to steer the economy through unprecedented challenges. Over the past year, organisations across a range of sectors have been innovating in order to navigate the crisis – from developing vaccines to finding new, effective ways of working remotely.

In recognition of the way research and development (R&D) can support the economy and build a better Britain, the Government published an R&D Roadmap in July, in which it committed to revitalising the R&D system to 'unleash a new wave of innovation'. It builds upon the Chancellor's 2020 Budget pledge to increase public R&D investment to £22bn a year by 2024-25. Forget GameStop, gamification is the real investing revolution For investors, this represents an opportunity to seek out companies who will most benefit from incentives on R&D, intellectual property (IP) and patents. There...