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

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，通过对世界的高级理解和将信息转化为知识，将各学科联系起来。人们越来越有兴趣通过创业活动帮助动员整个英国高等教育社区的社会科学创新。Aspect(一个商业化、创业和转型的社会科学平台)是由英国研究中心资助的CCF(连接能力基金)计划。Aspect大学合作伙伴(伦敦政治经济学院、加的夫、格拉斯哥、曼彻斯特、牛津、谢菲尔德、苏塞克斯)和准成员(布里斯托尔、诺丁汉·特伦特、约克皇家艺术学院)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(为社会科学领域的大学商业化和企业合作提供种子大学合作)是Aspect的旗舰项目，这是首个此类项目的加速器，旨在帮助社会科学家提供创新和适销对路的研究想法。该方案为参与者提供培训、支持和资金，以将这些想法转化为企业或社会企业。参与者受益于建立自己想法的支持，包括专注于培养创业技能、专家演讲者和指导的新兵训练营，以及争取奖金和风险投资的机会。ESRC的资金将把这些机会带到英格兰以外的地方，进入英国其他地区甚至更远的地方。在ESRC的支持下，借助加的夫和格拉斯哥的早期参与，成功将在北爱尔兰、苏格兰和威尔士推广，将社会科学研究商业化的转变扩展到所有地区，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，提升英国的研发水平，走在全球合作的前沿，发展世界领先的基础设施和机构。通过加的夫和格拉斯哥参与第一个成功计划，所有参与者及其本国机构都受益于：-所有团队都获得了英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士政府系统及其如何促进创新的机会，-拓宽了参与机构真正独特的机会的广度，-增加了团队之间共享的资源和联系，以及-增加了与苏格兰、威尔士和英格兰(政府和非政府)周围创新生态系统合作伙伴的战略参与。试点计划使机构能够通过共享经验学习来扩大其活动，增加社会科学研究机会类型的多样性，并开始在机构及其周围的创新系统之间建立强大的支撑生态系统。在ESRC的支持下，北爱尔兰、苏格兰和威尔士的高等院校的参与将：-丰富成功项目管道，-扩大获得包括投资、指导、经验在内的资源的机会，并建立商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，供加速器的连续迭代利用，-促进英格兰、苏格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰内部和整个英格兰、苏格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰的更多包容性，以及所有具有生态系统的团队更多的参与，无论他们是战略合作伙伴、资助者还是不同的战略政府优先事项，以及-创建社会科学商业化和创业大使。

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.