Business, Innovation and Skills written question – answered at on 4 March 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what correspondence he has received on future funding arrangements for innovation centres currently funded by his Department and its agencies.
Many of the existing regional development agencies (RDA) funded centres were established with a clear expectation that they have plans in place to become self-sustaining when their current grants come to an end. As part of the process of transferring RDA responsibilities, including assets and liabilities to other organisations, we are considering the future of some of these centres on a case by case basis. This Department has had direct contact with a number of RDA-funded centres in the course of this work.
Furthermore, as part of the process being taken forward by the Technology Strategy Board to establish a network of Technology and Innovation Centres, some of the existing centres will have had an opportunity to register an interest in forming all or part of the high value manufacturing centre and/or register an interest within the broad thematic areas of energy and resource efficiency; transport systems; health care; ICT; and electronics, photonics and electrical systems.
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