Rural Affairs and the Environment (RAE) Consultation on the Research Strategy for 2016-2021.

6. Enabling Principles

Core to the successful delivery of this strategy will be an ethos of collaboration within the science base and an outward facing focus on the needs of end users.

A number of enabling principles can be identified that should pervade all aspects of the portfolio. These can help focus the efforts of both the research community and end users for what will represent a significant investment of public funding.

• Exchanging Knowledge - effective knowledge exchange is essential to ensure that knowledge is clearly communicated to end users^[3] and that relevance and impacts are maximised for them.
• Inspiring Innovation - symbolises the aspiration to constantly look for new and novel approaches including facilitating interdisciplinary research; enhancing the funding base; and collaboration and cross-partner working to deliver solution focused impacts.
• Maintaining National and International Capability - supporting and sharing the physical and intellectual assets within the science base including infrastructure, equipment, data and expertise and other research platforms (e.g. farms) to safeguard the continuous development and retention of internationally recognised expertise within Scotland.

Question 2: Do these 'enabling principles' set the right context or should additional principles be adopted?