Aspect’s Research Commercialisation Community of Practice (RC CoP) seeks to support Innovation and knowledge exchange teams to share best practice, find opportunities for shared activities and identify and test new and experimental models for commercialising social sciences research.
The network of institutions in the Aspect network has demonstrated potential significant demand for social science commercialisation both amongst the academic community as well as the knowledge exchange professional services community. However, this demand is still nascent and requires support mechanisms, toolkits and resources to both the academic and university professional services communities.
To address the practical challenges, the Research Commercialisation Community of Practice within Aspect co-developed 4 workshops to draw out key strengths amongst the participating institutions whilst also relying on specific expert input to inform and elevate understanding of each key chosen issue.
As can be seen below, each workshop had a suite of outputs developing the framework of toolkit resources and training, enabling the workshop series to be accessed by as many members of the Knowledge Exchange Community as possible.
Aspect Learning Gain Report 2021
Our annual summary of insights and learnings from across the Aspect programme
Research Commercialisation Toolkits
A selection of tools to support and show the possibilities of research commercialisation.
Aspect: Stimulating the pipeline workshop report
A report sharing outputs from a workshop series on stimulating the pipeline for social science research commercialisation.
ARC Project profile: Teacher Selection Project
Robert Klassen provides an overview of his venture the Teacher Selection Project.
ARC Project profile: EQUAL-Futures
Roberta Guerrina provides an overview of her venture EQUAL-Futures.
ARC Project profile: Culturalytics
Michael Muthukrishna provides an overview of his venture Culturalytics.
Social Business Model Innovation Report
Exploring how social science startups ideate and evolve their business models
ARC Accelerator: Class of 2021
Welcoming the Aspect Research Commercialisation (ARC) Accelerator class of 2021
Profit with purpose: The ASAP Impact Report
Highlights the key results and programme activities from the inaugural ASAP cohort.
Webinar: Measuring the success of social science commercialisation
A panel of leading voices in social science commercialisation explore how its success can be measured.
A bright new world of social science ventures
Chris Fellingham reflects on the inaugural SUCCESS cohort and looks ahead to the new ARC Accelerator
Commercialising social sciences based educational games
University of Manchester’s Gavin Davies gives an overview of this Aspect funded project
Support for social science commercialisation within Cardiff University
This discussion explores, and aims to help academics navigate, the commercialisation landscape
Green shoots emerge to commercialise social sciences
Julia Black outlines Aspect’s work in this area and flags our recently published 2020 Learning Report
SUCCESS Programme – 2020 cohort winners announced
Find out which projects won awards at the pitch day
Aspect Learning Report 2020
Our annual summary of insights and learnings from across the Aspect programme