From research idea to creating a SHAPE venture

This course empowers university staff to explore the potential of their research ideas as impactful SHAPE ventures. Learn practical steps to identify opportunities, validate propositions, and plan the journey from an early concept to a testable, sustainable initiative that benefits society and the economy.

This self-learning course has been created from outputs from the Aspect community, largely through Aspect Testbed project findings. The Aspect Testbed provides seed funding for Aspect members to collaborate and develop joint learnings. Many of the documents referenced in this course are the products of these collaborations, and details of the collaborating parties are displayed in the documents. To find out more about the Aspect Testbed visit: https://aspect.ac.uk/testbed/