United Kingdom, Feb. 5 -- UK Research and Innovation is facing "hard decisions" on funding future projects.

Ian Chapman, the boss of UK Research and Innovation, which spends £8 billion of taxpayer money each year on research and innovation, has been told by the government to "focus and do fewer things better".

He explained: "When you make choices some will miss out, but if you don't make choices everybody loses out."

However, Stephen Tulip, UK manager of the App Association, has warned that a change in approach could have a hugely detrimental impact on the business sector.

He told the BBC: "Reducing budgets and staffing for small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) support at Innovate UK is the opposite of what our domestic start-u...