Introduction – The Story of TUS Works
TUS Works is a living framework that connects research, innovation with socio-economic impact. TUS Works provides a pathway for students, staff, researchers and enterprise partners to explore ideas, express ambition, and engage with enterprise development.
TUS Works encourages curiosity, creativity, collaboration, commercialisation and co-creation across disciplines, using regional, national and international perspectives.
Through open exchange, shared ambition, and creative collaboration, TUS Works supports the conversion of insight into opportunity and socio-economic impact.
Students
TUS Works supports students to explore their curiosity which can shape their future. Through hands-on projects, enterprise challenges, and real-world research, students learn how to turn ideas into action. TUS Works supports experiential education which allows innovation become part of education.
Staff
TUS Works offers staff a pathway to connect teaching, research, and innovation. TUS Works supports educators to bring entrepreneurial discovery into their work linking teaching environments with communities of practice and ideas with communities of impact.
Researchers
TUS Works assists researchers to translate their curiosity and research output into socio-economic impact. The TUS Works framework is an entrepreneurial discovery pathway, a pathway which allows researchers align their ideas with socio-economic needs and collaborative opportunities and impact.
Pathway Partners

Partnership is at the heart of TUS Works, partnerships with industry, public bodies, and community organisations to co-design new opportunities for impact. The TUS Works network offers access to knowledge, know-how and collective ambition with a regional, national and international perspective.