Overview
Researchers from Social Science 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 social science research outputs ought to be limited to delivering high research impact without ‘the revenue earning’ agenda. Social science 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 social science 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 social science areas of their academics/researchers, as it is often projected that non-STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & 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 Social Science Innovations within University – Context
- Monetising Social Science Innovations via New Ventures – Implementation
Certification
All attendees will be provided an acknowledgement certificate (PDF copy) of having completed the training course.
Duration
150 minutes [17:00-19:30]
Curriculum
- 2 Sections
- 8 Lessons
- 150 Minutes
- Recognising Social Science Innovations within University – Context4
- 1.1Understanding a Social Science Project amidst various Research/KE approaches
- 1.2Making sense of IP Commercialisation from a Social Science Researcher’s perspective
- 1.3Opting for non-monetisation methods to achieve Research Impact
- 1.4Examples of Social Science Projects adopting monetisation route to maximise Impact
- Monetising Social Science Innovations via New Ventures – Implementation4
- 2.1Recognising Reusable Components and Creating a Transferrable Framework Tool
- 2.2Reviewing profiles of Funders/Doners and Beneficiaries/Buyers to build a proposition
- 2.3Understanding Intervention Cost/Effort and Thinking as Independent Entity
- 2.4Building a Business Case to prepare a Business Unit or a Business Plan for a new Spinout