Below, you’ll discover details of remarkable projects we’ve supported throughout the years. The insights gleaned from these projects often shape our training programmes and materials, enriching our offerings with valuable knowledge and experiences from across the Network
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Phase 2
A human centric research of skills and decision making capacity
Led by researchers from the RCA, Cranfield, and Manchester Metropolitan, the project team are building a business case to bring sustainable fashion garment manufacturing back to the UK.
Phase 2
ABaCuss Phase 2
Creating meaningful intrapreneurial placements and training for researchers.
Phase 3
APPLE
This project will explore how systems underpinning academic career progression can be better aligned to support meaningful engagement with Entrepreneurship & Innovation.
Phase 2
Apple – Academic Promotion Pathways linked to Enterprise
Aligning academic career progression through systematic change.
Phase 2
Applying social science to early-stage innovation to reduce environmental harms
Preparatory research for environmental start-ups grounded in robust research.
Phase 2
ARC Accelerator Phase 2: Accelerator for Shape Ventures
The first accelerator dedicated to building SHAPE ventures.
Phase 2
Artifical Intelligence in Arbitration: Ethical considerations
Ensuring the careful and ethically appropriate integration of AI technologies.
Phase 3
Artificial Intelligence in Arbitration: Ethical Considerations
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.
Phase 3
Aspect Angels
Aspect Angels is a first-of-its-kind network that builds pathways from ideas and research through to commercialisation via angel investment.
Phase 1
Aspect Research Commercialisation (ARC) Accelerator
Aspect’s accelerator programme for social science academics and researchers.
Phase 1
Aspect Student Accelerator Programme (ASAP)
Aspect’s social sciences student and alumni accelerator programme.
Phase 2
Aspect Translational Impact Acceleration Hub (TIAH) Phase 2
Generating frameworks for more efficient business-scaling support to academics.
Phase 3
Aspect Translational Impact Acceleration Hub (TIAH) Phase 3
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.
Phase 2
Bristol Impact Hub
Bringing Bristol’s professional services teams together to deliver support for SHAPE using a shared framework.
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