Letter to the Clerk of the Committee from Dr A W Rudge
CBE in response to information requested by the Committee
Thank you for your letter of 23 March and for the appreciative
comments from the Committee, which I have passed to Professor
Brook and his colleagues.
You asked for some amplification of the quantitative contribution
of IPR to the universities in relation to their other income streams.
The data I was trying to recall were provided by the Higher Education
Statistics Agency and carried by the Times Higher Education Supplement.
I enclose a copy of the relevant insert.[1]
It shows, for instance, university income from Intellectual Property
Rights (in 1995-96) at £12.185 million relative to:
— the value of research grants and contracts, amounting
to £1,553.693 million ie about 0.8 per cent; and to:
— general recurrent income (ie excluding Government
grants and fee income) of £3,748.164 million, representing
approximately 0.3 per cent, as I mentioned.
The comparison between IPR income and that received through
residences and catering (roughly in the ratio of 1:60) is a sobering
one.
I hope that this can be helpful to the Committee's inquiry.
Professor Brook and I appreciated the opportunity of contributing
to its work.
25 March 1998
1 Not printed. Back
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