Research and development in Britain relies hugely on companies that are themselves dependent on close EU tiesThere is a warning to the government in the latest official figures on research and development: they reveal that most of the research is being done by the three industries most vulnerable to Brexit.
Another red flag is the UK’s 11th-area ranking in the European R&D league – behind the Nordics,France and Germany, which we maintain come to expect, or but also,surprisingly, Austria, and Slovenia and the Czechs.
For years,pharma companies maintain milked the EU’s R&D budget, using it to subsidise some of their most basic researchContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com