Linked below are the slides that I and Tom White used at the Business Breakfast on 29th January 2025 to talk about the future and showcase some AI use cases. CTC Biz Breakfast January 2025Download

Why might you make a traditional dissertation unit enterprising? How might you make it enterprising? What have I done in my attempts to develop an Enterprising Dissertation module in two credit-bearing units at the University of Bristol? Attached is my short presentation to the Bristol Institute of Learning and Teaching Conference on July 10th 2024 … Continue reading The Enterprising Dissertation

Slides (and thus references) from my Corsham Business Breakfast short talk follow below. I also mentioned the work of David Hieatt. ctc-biz-breakfast-storytelling-deckDownload

Building on the work I’ve been doing for the University of Exeter that led up to the ARC Accelerator launch I’ve also been running bespoke impact and commercialisation sessions for various clients including the University of York, and most recently the University of Leeds. The Research Commercialisation team at Leeds had attended the ARC Launch … Continue reading Case Study: Leeds Accelerate: Supporting STEM academics to commercialise their research. Nov-Dec 2023

Note: I feel like this tool *should* already exist, but I've not seen it anywhere... so I'm claiming at least independent invention! When you’re generating and developing early-stage venture ideas it can be helpful to use provocations to ‘stretch’ and iterate those initial ideas into new possibilities. The first idea is usually too simple, too … Continue reading Ideation Scanning Matrix

As introduced in the previous blog, for the last year I’ve been working freelance for the ARC Accelerator supporting academics from the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences to develop their research insights into impacts (https://davejarman.co.uk/2023/02/01/case-study-supporting-arts-and-social-science-researchers-to-generate-impacts-from-their-research-ongoing-since-spring-2022/). In the process of this work we’ve used an array of existing venture-planning tools from professional practice including a variety … Continue reading New and Enhanced Early-Stage Venture-Planning Canvasses (part 2)

For the last year I’ve been working freelance for the ARC Accelerator supporting academics from the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences to develop their research insights into impacts (see my earlier Case Study). In the process of this work we’ve used an array of existing venture-planning tools from professional practice including a variety of canvasses. … Continue reading New and Enhanced Early-Stage Venture-Planning Canvasses (part 1)

I got interviewed last year by George Barnes of Bristol-based digital solutions provider newicon for their 'Future Thinking' podcast. You can find the interview here: https://newicon.net/future-thinking-episode-10-teaching-innovation-with-dave-jarman It was great fun to do, we had a good 45-minute or so ramble about all things innovation, entrepreneurship, and how I approach teaching and coaching the process of … Continue reading An Interview

I was approached by the University of Exeter, working as part of the Aspect Network of universities who were looking to develop a pre-accelerator prior to their existing ARC accelerator programme for so-called 'SHAPE' (Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts) academics. For many years I've supported researchers at all levels to explore how their research insights … Continue reading Case Study: The Entrepreneurial Researcher: Supporting Arts and Social Science researchers to generate impacts from their research. Ongoing since Spring 2022.