A UK report calls for more recognition of the contributions made by university scientific and other research to national economic prosperity. The report, by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, says that the University of Dundee's excellence in life sciences, for example, led to the creation in the Scottish city of one of Britain's leading life-sciences clusters. Policy-makers have had difficulty putting the excellence of UK universities to economic use, says 'The Connected University', but now “this issue has become urgent”. Noting that “the innovative businesses our universities create and support will be essential to allowing us to emerge strongly from the recession”, the report looks at ways to make that a reality.