Funded Projects

Developing working models of intrapreneurship in the social sciences.

Creating meaningful intrapreneurial placements and training for researchers.

This project will explore how systems underpinning academic career progression can be better aligned to support meaningful engagement with Entrepreneurship & Innovation.

Aligning academic career progression through systematic change.

The first accelerator dedicated to building SHAPE ventures.

Ensuring the careful and ethically appropriate integration of AI technologies.

This project will allow researchers to engage with the relevant commercial stakeholders (specifically AI firms, law firms and arbitral institutions) to ensure the careful and ethically appropriate integration of AI technologies into commercial arbitration processes through the application of the academic research conducted by the authors.

Aspect Angels is a first-of-its-kind network that builds pathways from ideas and research through to commercialisation via angel investment.

Supporting social scientist entrepreneurs.

Aspect’s accelerator programme for social science academics and researchers.

Aspect’s social sciences student and alumni accelerator programme.

Generating frameworks for more efficient business-scaling support to academics.

As a result of the Phase 2 funding, the TIAH members developed a workable process, and an understanding of the the costs (in time and funding) required to deliver a comprehensive SHAPE commercialisation offer.

Creating an Ed Tech Games Hub for the Aspect consortium.

Co-creating an online training resource for social sciences researchers.

Piloting a comprehensive Knowledge Exchange training programme.

Creating capacity for engagement.

Exploring challenges related to industry and academic engagement.

Showcasing innovation from across the Aspect network.

Developing commercialisation strategies.