Lloyds flags UK £10-£20 billion innovation infrastructure funding gap over next decade

• Lloyds Banking Group analysis flagged a GBP 10-20 billion shortfall in UK innovation-enabling university infrastructure investment over the next decade.
• Report framed physical capacity as a binding constraint on commercializing research, despite UK universities’ GBP 158 billion economic impact in 2021/22.
• Expanding university real estate capacity could lift annual private R&D activity by about 25% at the most constrained institutions.
• Underinvestment tied to long payback periods, fragmented value capture, financial pressure across higher education.
• Called for blended finance, public-private co-investment, long-term capital, place-based vehicles to scale labs, science parks, innovation districts.

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