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.
SUCCESS project profile: Enduring Net
Professor Ser-Huang Poon explains how the programme has supported her venture
SUCCESS project profile: Humanity Research Consultancy
Mina Chiang, Founder, provides an overview of her venture which aims to end modern slavery
SUCCESS project profile: Sahara Nutrition
Dr Hibbah Osei-kwasi explains what her project is seeking to achieve and how she is benefitting from SUCCESS
SUCCESS project profile: Evaluability Assessment
Dr Nai Rui Chng outlines his project and the value of SUCCESS
Webinar recording: Data, IP and commercialisation
How to use third-party data lawfully, and protect your intellectual output.
Reflecting on lessons learnt from the SUCCESS Programme
An interview with Chris Fellingham, Head of the SUCCESS Programme
Webinar recording: Social Science Commercialisation 101
Sharing knowledge, evidence and expertise in KEC for social science research.
SUCCESS project profile: The State of the States
Chris Gilson explains his interactive resource focused on US politics
Social science spinouts a neglected pathway to impact?
Chris Fellingham explores the importance of spinouts for achieving impact
SUCCESS project profile: WallBo
Dr Amol Deshmukh outlines his very timely handwashing focused venture
SUCCESS workshop by Ruth Daniel, CEO of In Place of War
Practical insights on starting and growing a social enterprise.
Now is the time to transform how we think about social science commercialisation
Julia Black argues that social sciences can play a unique role in the post-COVID-19
SUCCESS project profile: Keep•It•Human
We spoke to Professor Ricardo Climent about his social enterprise
Converge – Driving academic entrepreneurship in Scotland
A focus on Scotland’s national entrepreneurial development programme for HEIs
SUCCESS project profile: Diagnosing volcanic risk
We spoke to Dr Andrew McGonigle about his fascinating project
Academic research for a better society: through social entrepreneurship
Insights from one of our SUCCESS programme projects – Cost Calculator for Children’s Services
SUCCESS project profile: Care Quality Evaluation for asthma (CQEa)
We spoke to Dr Michela Tinelli, Founder of Care Quality Evaluation for asthma
SUCCESS workshop on social technology
Key insights from our session with Social Tech Trust and Hello Lamp Post
The future of social science commercialisation
Why the outlook appears to be so positive for social science commercialisation.