MI5’s university warning puts UK research security under the microscope

MI5’s warning about a Beijing-linked institute shows that research security is now part of the innovation challenge: Britain needs international collaboration, but also sharper checks on who funds sensitive work and where it may end up.

Evidence For

• MI5 said a front company used grants to British universities to obtain technology research, and urged academics to stop working with the China General Technology Research Institute, which the BBC reports is linked to China’s...