Discover stories, ideas and strategies for sharing know-how and expertise in SHAPE research commercialisation.
Resources

2 March 2023
Methods for Change at the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences 2022
In this blog the Methods for Change team reflect on two interactive sessions on spatial, qualitative, and mixed methods convened as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2022.

12 October 2021
Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Map
Interactive map detailing the entrepreneurship offerings at member institutions.

11 October 2021
Aspect Learning Gain Report 2021
Our annual summary of insights and learnings from across the Aspect programme

30 September 2021
An exploratory look at social sciences intrapreneurship
An overview of intrapreneurship; why it’s important and examples of university intrapreneurship.

30 September 2021
Research Commercialisation Toolkits
A selection of tools to support and show the possibilities of research commercialisation.

30 September 2021
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.

30 September 2021
Social Science Commercialisation Case Studies
Sharing insights and examples that inspire social science commercialisation.

30 September 2021
Methods For Change: Showcasing Innovative Social Science Methodologies
A detailed Final report by the Methods for Change project team.

30 September 2021
Case study template for Comms and KE COP
Template of questions to help create case studies for comma and KE

30 September 2021
ABaCuSS Student Reflections
Six students from the Universities of Glasgow and Manchester were placed into intrapreneurship-based placements within companies for 8 weeks, to test working models of intrapreneurship. This is what they found…

30 September 2021
ABaCuSS Final Project Report: Programme Overview and Learnings
Sharing ‘good practice’ learnings from the ABaCuSS pilot programme.

27 September 2021
A look back at the challenges faced in engaging and supporting social science entrepreneurship
One of the key challenges discussed among Aspect Entrepreneurship CoP members concerns the language around entrepreneurship. Are the ways in which entrepreneurship has been communicated relevant to some social sciences disciplines?

27 September 2021
Aspect: Stimulating the pipeline workshop report
A report sharing outputs from a workshop series on stimulating the pipeline for social science research commercialisation.

27 September 2021
Zinc Case Studies
Case studies demonstrating some of the partnerships between Zinc ventures and universities.

27 September 2021
Innovation Fellows Project Report
This report provides detailed explanations and findings of Manchester’s pilot.

27 September 2021
Creative Challenge Series Event Report
Summary of the event, sharing lessons and guidance on how to run similar events.

24 September 2021
Ecosystem Audit Outputs
Drawing on the wealth of entrepreneurial activities and opportunities that exist across the Aspect network.

23 September 2021
Aspect International Project Report
A detailed report that shares the learnings and findings from the Internationalisation of Aspect pilot project.

20 September 2021
How is Equality, Diversity and Inclusion translated into business engagement practice?
Exploring how CoP members are addressing issues of equality, diversity and inclusion.

20 September 2021
FinTech Deep Dive Resources
Videos and a guide exploring good practice in engagement between academics, universities FinTech organisations