CRoSS

Cambridge Enterprise has a dedicated team who support researchers in the arts, humanities and social sciences as well as broader non-STEM disciplines to explore commercial routes to impact: academic consultancy, IP licensing, co-creation of innovative products and services, company creation, social venturing, incubation and investment.

We work closely with colleagues in the Research Office, the Schools and the Knowledge Exchange Network to get the right support in place and can assist with due diligence on copyright and other IP, contracting and commercial negotiations, marketing, impact and innovation funding applications, training, mentoring and making connections to industry and third sector partners.

Under the CRoSS programme, we also have discretionary funding to help support early career and postdoctoral researchers engaged in high-impact innovation and commercialisation projects. This includes projects supported in the Chris Abell Postdoc Business Plan Competition or in our incubator and accelerator programmes.

The Commercialisation of Research out of the Social Sciences (CRoSS) project was seeded by the ESRC Impact Accelerator Account with an aim to build the capacity of social science researchers and knowledge exchange professionals to identify and support opportunities for commercialising outputs from social science research.

Previous funding in this space helped to make visible the institutional readiness of the University of Cambridge. As a part of that experience, the University created a team Cambridge Enterprise in 2018 to focus exclusively on commercialisation of activities in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.

Our programmes are collaborative by design, and the resources we create are shared widely. Please get in touch with us if you would like to be part of our work!

Supporting new collaborations in the creative, cultural and heritage industries in Cambridgeshire or further afield.

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Interactive Q&A sessions delivered by Dr Lisa Lin, of StoryLab, that discussed documentary production, Creating Great Content and Navigating the Film/Documentary Industry. 

Creating a social enterprise is one high-impact route by which innovations and expertise from university research can find their way into the wider world.

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We look at some practical steps you can take to manage data when having commercialisation in mind, and talk about when and how to find support from across the University

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How to take the right approach to storytelling and documentary development in order to give your research-based documentary the best possible chances of reaching a wide audience

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The basics of establishing a social venture; balancing profit with people and planet

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How the documentary film industry works, how to successfully get your work noticed, and where opportunities arise

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Podcasts may feel like the perfect fit for research communication, allowing conversation, storytelling, and a community of engaged listeners for your work

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