The event explored the requirements for effective collaboration between academia and the creative industries
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Aspect28th October 2020
Our annual summary of insights and learnings from across the Aspect programme
Aspect is organised into cross-institutional, cross-disciplinary communities, designed to capture and share knowledge across five core areas of practice. The Business Engagement Community of Practice (CoP) seeks to generate and share good practice on social sciences business engagement and encourage industry engagement with Aspect.
To find out more, or to join the Business Engagement Community of Practice, please contact Britta Wyatt: britta.wyatt@oxentia.com
The Business Engagement CoP is made up of volunteers drawn from the Aspect member institutions, who have some responsibility for leading or coordinating business engagement within their organisation. Current CoP members’ responsibilities, for example, include working with businesses and industry to create commercial and philanthropic partnerships, handling alumni relations and working with academics to access funding to support business development.
The group are working together to generate and share good practice in business engagement for the social sciences via a range of projects, including:
Further information on these projects will be made available here: https://aspect.ac.uk/about/aspect-funded-projects/business-engagement-insight-generation/
Identifying entrepreneurship opportunities and sharing knowledge and expertise
EntrepreneurshipBuilding a shared network of business partnerships and industry engagement
Business EngagementRaising the profile of social sciences research commercialisation and supporting communication and network engagement
CommunicationsSharing best practices and identifying new and experimental models
Research Commercialisation