London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is one of the foremost social science universities in the world. LSE opened its doors in 1895 with three rooms and 200 students. Today more than 11,000 students study for degrees at our central London campus, while more than 40,000 more learn on campus or remotely. But while much has changed, one thing remains constant: our commitment to the original vision of LSE, as ‘a community of people and ideas, founded to know the causes of things, for the betterment of society’.
Announcing The Social Venture Pathway
The Social Venture Pathway offers a toolkit of resources to guide you through the process of creating a social venture. This self-guided pathway aims to fill the gaps missing from traditional innovation processes by providing a clear and comprehensive training resource for starting your first social venture.
Introducing ASAP Club…
Many students have innovative ideas that would benefit from further guidance and support, whether they end up building ventures or not. Continuing to extend support to an already actively interested group is an efficient avenue for stimulating and growing the social science innovation pipeline.
Creative Challenge Series Event Report
Summary of the event, sharing lessons and guidance on how to run similar events.
ASAP: Post-Programme Outputs
An update on how ASAP is supporting a like-minded community of student entrepreneurs who are building socially impactful and responsible scalable businesses.
Podcast mini series: The ASAP Club
The mini-series aims to inform, inspire, and prepare early-stage innovators, preparing them for life as an entrepreneur.
Podcast: Inside the Founders Mind
An 6-part podcast exploring the entrepreneurial mindset and key traits such as resilience, stamina and facing failure.
ASAP: Learnings from Joint University Social Sciences Accelerator
How to help impact-driven
founders change the world
for the better
ASAP Club Digital Toolkit and Mini-Project
The ASAP Club aspires to establish a digital support structure.
ARC Project profile: Culturalytics
Michael Muthukrishna provides an overview of his venture Culturalytics.
Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Mapping: Case studies
Case studies from the Aspect Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Mapping funded project.
ARC Project profile: CODES
Michael Bruter provides an overview of his venture tackling the lack of understanding of public opinion in electoral processes.
Research Method: Digitised Ethnography Creating Interactive Stories
Exploring the Digitised Ethnography Creating Interactive Stories Method, with the Methods for Change project.
Social Business Model Innovation Report
Exploring how social science startups ideate and evolve their business models
Case study: Here We Flow
Here We Flow is a social start-up bringing organic feminine hygiene products to the mass market in the UK.
What’s different about social science entrepreneurship?
A Q&A session from the Aspect Entrepreneurship Community of Practice
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.
The Language of Entrepreneurship
A Q&A Session from the Aspect Entrepreneurship Community of Practice
Innovating revenue generation to sustain university entrepreneurship hubs
A knowledge sharing session from the Entrepreneurship Community of Practice