Universities and investors across the world are ready to tackle the next global challenges.
Environmental, social and corporate governance are increasingly important factors when setting up spinouts and investing in them, guests have been telling Global University Venturing on its podcast, Talking Tech Transfer, over the past several months. Social enterprises and other types of non-profit companies are also having a moment at institutions as illustrious as University of Oxford and University College London.
London School of Economics and Political Science is leading a project called Aspect – an acronym for A Social Sciences Platform for Entrepreneurship, Commercialisation and Transformation – that focuses exclusively on commercialising research emerging from social sciences departments. Its membership has grown to 19 universities, including York, Sheffield and Manchester – whose heads of tech transfer all spoke to GUV for a feature on the north of England in this issue.
Oxford, which is also a member of Aspect, has long been a pioneer in commercialising social sciences…
Thierry Heles
Thierry Heles is the editor of Global University Venturing, host of the Beyond the Breakthrough interview podcast and responsible for the monthly GUV Gazette (sign up here for free).
