The Warry Report: Increasing the Economic impact of the Research Councils (July 2006) is the report of the Research Council Economic Impact Group, chaired by Peter Warry, to the Director General of Science and innovation at the DTI. It has four recommendations directed at the research councils:
- providing stronger leadership
- being more influential
- engaging more with stakeholders
- being able to demonstrate the impact of their investments in both research and researcher training.
With respect to researchers the report recommends that the research councils should:
- expand incentives for researchers to participate in knowledge transfer
- foster the development of partnerships between research groups in the UK and overseas centres of excellence
- encourage and reward two-way secondments between the research base and business
- encourage the universities to make enterprise training widely available for researchers in all disciplines.
See also the government's response to the Warry report.