Snapshot Brief:

Technology Transfer & Impact Development Professionals and SHAPE Researchers can learn various approaches of 'Productising Research Outputs & Reusing Research Methods to maximise Research Impact' by attending this comprehensive 2hr 30min course. SHAPE researchers can do IP Commercialisation in a slightly different ways from how STEM researchers do.

Overview:

Researchers from SHAPE areas (i.e. non-STEM domains) seem to believe ‘mistakenly’ that their research projects and activities have no connection to the aspects of IP Commercialisation skills and SHAPE research outputs ought to be limited to delivering high research impact without ‘the revenue earning’ agenda. SHAPE researchers, usually, struggle to find ‘new sources of funding’ to achieve continuous support to their research project ideas, and thereby, delivery of good research outputs from complex research work on SHAPE domain are often meant to be a one-time activity.  Interestingly, Research Institutions are also exploring new ways to support both teaching and research activities on SHAPE areas of their academics/researchers, as it is often projected that non-STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) subject areas do not bring students as well as incomes to the institutions (thereby affecting the institutional operating cost).

This course will be mainly useful to non-STEM innovators/researchers, who wish to understand why/how IP Commercialisation skills are crucial to them (more than to STEM innovators/researchers), and how their prior research experiences can be utilised to transform their research project outputs/experience into impactful outcomes (either as monetised or non-monetised applications). If interested, non-STEM spinout/startup founders can also build successful new ventures in a slightly different approach from the usual ways of how STEM research outputs are commercialised.  

What You’ll Learn From This Course

·       Recognising SHAPE Innovations within University – Context

·       Monetising SHAPE Innovations via New Ventures – Implementation

Certification

All attendees will be provided an acknowledgement certificate (PDF copy) of having completed the training course.

Curriculum:

Module-1: Recognising SHAPE Innovations within University – Context

·       Understanding a SHAPE Project amidst various Research/KE approaches

·       Making sense of IP Commercialisation from a SHAPE Researcher’s perspective

·       Opting for non-monetisation methods to achieve Research Impact

·       Examples of SHAPE Projects adopting monetisation route to maximise Impact

Module-2: Monetising SHAPE Innovations via New Ventures – Implementation

·       Recognising Reusable Components and Creating a Transferrable Framework Tool

·       Reviewing profiles of Funders/Doners and Beneficiaries/Buyers to build a proposition

·       Understanding Intervention Cost/Effort and Thinking as Independent Entity

·       Building a Business Case to prepare a Business Unit or a Business Plan for a new Spinout