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IMPACT-IP

Boosting deal readiness, building capacity, training and developing research staff to enable faster commercialisation

 

Deal readiness playbooks

Standardised templates

Learn the IP commercialisation process

Bespoke business and commercial training

About the Programme

IMPACT-IP aims to increase the impact of higher education research through improved processes. It’s a collective project to strengthen technology transfer capacity, foster deal readiness among researchers, and develop self-service resources for commercialising academic research, benefiting the higher education sector, investors, and industry.

Our ambition is to harvest the collective capabilities across commercialisation teams with investors, entrepreneurs and professional services to transform how we support commercialisation and spin-out.

We aim to achieve this by building a common understanding among all stakeholders and by creating toolkits, playbooks, guidance, templates, and standardisation to help streamline the commercialisation process.

Playbooks

The programme will create interlinked playbooks and guides, explaining the why and the how of a commercial deal​.

Playbooks will incorporate mixed media and be co-created with input from their target audiences, including researchers, lawyers, investors, entrepreneurs, and technology transfer offices (TTOs).

Templates

Through IMPACT-IP we will develop a comprehensive pack of templates, used across SETsquared partners and wider, which we know investors will use and their lawyers approve.

The templates will be standardised and co-created with lawyers, investors, entrepreneurs and technology transfer offices. We are aiming for 80:20 rule – for template use and the terms within. Together, the Playbooks and Templates will create a Deal Readiness Toolkit, designed to be the primary resource for TTOs across the UK. This toolkit will be endorsed by lawyers, investors, and their associations, and will be trusted by founders and recommended by entrepreneurs.

Commercialisation Fellows

This is an opportunity for early career researchers to develop commercial skills and business acumen through a focused fixed-term fellowship programme.

The programme will include bespoke training, plus potential for placements, secondments and mentorship from Entrepreneurs in Residence and support the overarching aims of IMPACT-IP to support and speed up deal-making.

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Entrepreneurs in Residence

IMPACT-IP will be supported by Entrepreneurs in Residence who will bring their extensive commercial acumen to support the programme.

They will bring experience aligned to managing university-business collaborations and the translation and commercialisation of research and/or entrepreneurship, such as company formation and growth, successful investment raises, etc. They will provide mentorship to commercialisation fellows, including supporting the training programme, helping develop an entrepreneurial network, and providing guidance and support in creating IMPACT-IP outputs.

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Expressions of Interest

If you’re interested in either contributing to the development of the playbooks and templates, or would like to be kept up to date on the completed Deal Readiness Toolkit, please fill out the form below. A member of the IMPACT-IP team will reach out to you shortly after submission.

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