Support for HEIs from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to participate in the SUCCESS Programme

支持苏格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰的高等教育机构参与 SUCCESS 计划

• 批准号: ES/W001500/1
• 负责人: Julia Black
• 金额: $ 21.78万
• 依托单位: London School of Economics and Political Science
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FW001500%2F1
• 关键词: Support; HEIs; Scotland; Wales; Northern

Social sciences research helps tackle some of the biggest societal challenges faced across the world, bridging disciplines through the advanced understanding of the world and the translation of information into knowledge. There is a growing appetite and project pipeline to help mobilise social sciences innovation across the HEI community within the UK through entrepreneurial activity.Aspect (A social sciences platform for commercialisation, entrepreneurship and transformation) is a CCF (Connecting Capability Fund) programme funded by Research England. The Aspect university partners (LSE, Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester, Oxford, Sheffield, Sussex) and associate members (Bristol, Nottingham Trent, Royal College of Arts, York) are committed to a vision of transforming the impact of social sciences research on the world through commercialisation and innovation. SUCCESS (Seeding University Collaboration for Commercialisation and Enterprise in Social Sciences) is Aspect's flagship programme, a first-of-its-kind accelerator designed to help social scientists with innovative and marketable research ideas. The programme provides participants with the training, support and funding to transform those ideas into a business or social enterprise. Participants benefit from support to build their ideas, including a boot-camp focussed on developing entrepreneurial skills, expert speakers, and mentorship, as well as the opportunity to pitch for prize funding and VC investment. ESRC funding will open up these opportunities beyond England and into the rest of the UK and beyond. With ESRC's support, and drawing from the early engagements of Cardiff and Glasgow, SUCCESS will be rolled out across Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, expanding the transformation of social sciences research commercialisation into all regions, and supporting key national strategic R&D ambitions, raising our research ambitions, inspiring and enabling talented people and teams, driving up innovation and productivity, levelling up R&D across the UK, being at the forefront of global collaboration and developing world-leading infrastructure and institutions. Through the involvement of Cardiff and Glasgow in the first SUCCESS programme, all participants and their home institutions have benefitted:- All teams have gained access to the English, Scottish and Welsh systems of government and how they promote innovation,- Widening the breadth of the truly unique opportunities fielded by participating institutions, - Increasing resources and contacts shared across the teams, and - Increasing strategic engagement with partners in the surrounding innovation ecosystems of Scotland, Wales and England (governmental and non-governmental).The pilot programme enabled institutions to scale their activities through shared experiential learning, increasing the diversity of types of social sciences research opportunities, and beginning to build a strong supporting ecosystem between institutions and their surrounding innovation systems. With the support of ESRC, the participation of HEIs in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, will:- Enrich the SUCCESS project pipeline, - Extend access to resources including investment, mentoring, experience, and build networks and ecosystems of business and investors,- Help to develop new pathways to impact for the social sciences,- Create a vibrant community going forward that successive iterations of the accelerator can draw upon,- Promote more inclusivity within and across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and greater engagement for all teams with ecosystems, be they strategic partners, funders or differing strategic government priorities, and- Create ambassadors for social sciences commercialisation and entrepreneurship.

社会科学研究有助于解决世界各地面临的一些最大的社会挑战，通过对世界的深入了解和将信息转化为知识来弥合学科。通过创业活动，在英国高等教育机构社区内帮助动员社会科学创新的兴趣和项目管道越来越大。Aspect（商业化，创业和转型的社会科学平台）是由英国研究院资助的CCF（连接能力基金）计划。Aspect大学合作伙伴（LSE，卡迪夫，格拉斯哥，曼彻斯特，牛津，谢菲尔德，苏塞克斯）和准成员（布里斯托，诺丁汉特伦特，皇家艺术学院，约克）致力于通过商业化和创新改变社会科学研究对世界的影响。SUCCESS（社会科学商业化和企业的种子大学合作）是Aspect的旗舰计划，这是一个旨在帮助社会科学家提供创新和可销售的研究想法的首个加速器。该计划为参与者提供培训，支持和资金，将这些想法转化为商业或社会企业。参与者受益于支持，以建立他们的想法，包括一个集中于发展创业技能，专家演讲者和导师的训练营，以及有机会为奖金和VC投资投球。ESRC的资助将打开这些机会超越英格兰和英国其他地区和超越。在ESRC的支持下，并借鉴卡迪夫和格拉斯哥的早期参与，SUCCESS将在北方爱尔兰、苏格兰和威尔士推广，将社会科学研究商业化的转型扩大到所有地区，并支持关键的国家战略研发雄心，提高我们的研究雄心，激励和扶持人才和团队，推动创新和生产力，在英国各地加强研发，走在全球合作的前沿，发展世界领先的基础设施和机构。通过卡迪夫和格拉斯哥参与第一个SUCCESS计划，所有参与者及其所在机构都受益于：- 所有团队都可以接触到英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士的政府系统以及它们如何促进创新，-扩大参与机构提供的真正独特机会的广度，-增加团队之间共享的资源和联系，以及-增加与苏格兰周边创新生态系统合作伙伴的战略参与，威尔士和英格兰试点方案使各机构能够通过共同的经验学习，增加社会科学研究机会的多样性，并开始在机构及其周围的创新系统之间建立一个强大的支持生态系统。在教育与科学研究委员会的支持下，北方爱尔兰、苏格兰和威尔士的高等院校的参与将：- 丰富SUCCESS项目管道，-扩大对资源的访问，包括投资，指导，经验，并建立企业和投资者的网络和生态系统，-帮助开发影响社会科学的新途径，-创建一个充满活力的社区，加速器的连续迭代可以借鉴，-促进英格兰，苏格兰，威尔士和北方爱尔兰内部和整个地区的包容性，以及所有生态系统团队的更多参与，无论是战略合作伙伴，资助者还是不同的战略政府优先事项，以及-设立社会科学商业化和创业大使。