For our latest interview, Anastasia Bektimirova sat down with Chris Fellingham, Co-Founder of ARC Accelerator, to chat about the commercialisation potential of research by academics in social sciences, arts and humanities.
They discussed:
How ARC Accelerator came about and what gaps in research commercialisation landscape it fills
Challenges of telling the impact story of SHAPE-based ventures
The differences between STEM and SHAPE commercialisation
SHAPE-based company archetypes, business models, and success stories
Commercialisation potential of pure versus computational social science and digital humanities
What it would take for SHAPE ventures to become VC-backable, and what high-risk high-reward work looks like in this space
How we can get more SHAPE commercialisation, and with greater impact