Welcome to Commercialise.KE
Commercialisation is a key part of your KE strategy. Commercialise.KE supports your academics while helping you build institutional capacity. Commercialise.KE includes internal marketing and promotion and an end-of-programme event to agree commercialisation plans.
What is Commercialise.KE?
Commercialise.KE is a market discovery programme for research commercialisation. There's a 3 day 'bootcamp' where we train your academics. Then we mentor them while they engage with external stakeholders, spending as much time per week as works for them. It helps to prepare them for competitive national commercialisation programmes while boosting your institutional commercialisation capacity.
Key Benefits of Commercialise.KE
Fully flexible
We will tailor the programme to your needs. You can choose the subjects/disciplines you invite academics to apply from, the number of projects and the support you offer to each project. We'll use our experience to offer guidance, but you're in charge.
Creates interdisciplinary collaboration
We've seen magic happen on this programme when STEM and SHAPE researchers are in the room together. They learn from each others' approaches and ways of thinking, and forge new relationships that endure beyond the programme, leading to new interdisciplinary research collaborations.
Builds capacity
Each time we run Commercialise.KE at an institution it gets easier to attract interesting projects. Academics talk to one another, and you can build internal advocacy for your office's work and better awareness of your offer via Commercialise.KE.
Boosts HEBCIS and KEF
Metrics matter, like it or not. Increasing research commercialisation through Commercialise.KE will give your HEBCIS return a boost, which improves your KEF performance and increases your HEIF (or equivalent in the devolved administrations) income
Why invest in Commercialise.KE?
Impact Case Studies
REF2029 preparation will soon be upon us. Academics completing Commercialise.KE and developing credible commercialisation plans will be well positioned to deliver strong case studies in the next REF. They are also the academics that international students want to work with.
Income
Commercialise.KE can help you bring projects to commercial reality faster, and in greater numbers. That increases the chances of your projects delivering a commercial return. This means unencumbered, additional income for your University, allowing you to invest in further improvements.
HEBCIS Return
HEBCIS and KEF evolve, but the need to collate statistics and demonstrate improvement year-on-year remains constant. With Commercialise.KE helping you increase invention disclosures and deliver more CPD, licensing and spinouts, those improvements will come more easily.
Research Environment
Institution-level assessment for RE is looking likely. Commercialise.KE helps you evidence training and support, as well as collaboration and contribution to the economy and society. It provides you with concrete examples of support offered to ECRs and academics for your RE statement
Concordats
Commercialise.KE helps you deliver against Knowledge Exchange Concordat Principles 3 and 5. It also helps you deliver your obligations to provide 10 days of training for researchers under the Researcher Development Concordat, with content that will benefit them long-term.
