How much do you know about UK innovation policy?

Businesses spent almost £17 billion on research and development (R&D) in the UK in 2011. Who funds the majority of R&D performed by businesses in the UK?

The UK ranked 2nd in the 2015 Global Innovation Index, yet doesn’t top the charts on R&D spending. Relative to the size of its economy, which of the following countries invests less in R&D than the UK?

For every £1 that British businesses spend on R&D, they spend far more on other intangible investments of the sort that Apple used to make the iPod a success: design, new business models, marketing and software development. How much did UK businesses invest in innovation including these ‘intangibles’ in 2011?

The UK research and innovation system is highly internationalised. Roughly what proportion of UK research publications have an international co-author?

In the 2012 autumn statement, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced the investment of an additional £600 million in supporting ‘8 Great Technologies.’ Each technology is an area in which the UK has world-leading research, a range of applications across a spectrum of industries and the potential to be at the forefront of commercialisation.

• the big data revolution and energy-efficient computing;
• satellites and commercial applications of space;
• robotics and autonomous systems;
• life sciences, genomics and synthetic biology;
• regenerative medicine;
• agri-science;
• advanced materials and nanotechnology;
• energy and its storage;

In the UK over 80% of patents are registered by companies and around 8% by universities. A small proportion of companies account for most patenting activity. Which of the following technology fields applies for more patents than any other in the UK?

The UK is a global leader in creative industries like design, architecture and music. Creative industries accounted for 8.8% of total UK service exports in 2013. The creative industries accounts for what percentage of the total UK economy?

For their work on which wonder material with enormous commercial potential did Russian-born scientists Andrei Geim and Kostya Novoselov from the University of Manchester win a Nobel prize in 2010?

Approximately how many new firms (across all industries) are created annually in the UK?

What is the name of the UK agency that since 2007 has invested over £1.5 billion in helping UK businesses innovate?