Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to encourage greater cooperation between China and the UK on innovation.

The UK cooperates with China on both policies to create the conditions for innovation and on building opportunities for UK and Chinese researchers and businesses to collaborate for mutual benefit. We aim to share our experience of developing an open, competitive, business driven innovation system with China which will ultimately make it easier for UK and Chinese partners to collaborate.

Innovation has featured on the agenda of a large number of Ministerial and official level meetings with the Chinese Government and its agencies and there are a number of specific initiatives to support UK-China collaboration on innovation.