Innovation on the Thames

Professor Brian Collins CB, RAEngProfessor of Engineering Policy

University College London

Critical Success factors

• Data• Systems thinking• Risk management• Resourcefulness• Long term planning

Innovation opportunities

• Holistic infrastructure design• Systems monitoring• Low carbon• Citizen involvement

Barriers

• Procurement models• Regulation• Skills and capacity• Risk appetite

• The value extracted by services using national infrastructure is insufficient and unsustainable. The cost of ownership of the infrastructure platforms is becoming unaffordable.

• The vision of UKCRIC is to create and operate a national and international multidisciplinary research and innovation programme that addresses both these issues, in a partnership between Industry, Government and Academia.

• It starts with enhanced capital investment in shared facilities in academic institutions but will involve further development of a wide range of multidisciplinary research and teaching programmes.

UKCRIC Vision

UKCRICBig Picture Synthesis,

Impact Delivery International, Data

Repository, Relationship and programme

coordination

Engineering and Technology Research

Laboratories

Modelling Simulations and

Analysis

Governance Regulation and Policy

Business Models , Finance and Economics

Systems thinking, Interdependencies

and Resilience

Research clusters

Social science and learning frameworks

Urban Living

Confidential - Brian Collins, UCL

Canaletto, 1749

Thank you