90 per cent of employers surveyed by the CBI have a training and development plan for their staff, normally linked to the overall business plan.

If you’re having trouble locating the right person to explore your business’s needs, you can find contact details for every business-facing person in UK higher education on our new interactive map.  There are also a number of other organisations in the higher education sector that can help you with your query.

Relationships between a business and a university often start from an initial contact in one area and develop in depth as each comes to understand the full range of the other’s needs and capacities.

Business can then progress along the ‘innovation escalator’ through their increased interaction with universities, starting with the employment of graduates and moving towards increased engagement in research and development activity.