# Figure anchors — catalogue-before-you-commercialise

The two figures in this piece are **conceptual diagrams**, not data charts — they
carry no plotted dataset, so there is no per-figure manifest/provenance pair (that
apparatus is for the branded-infographic data pipeline). This file records the
factual anchors each diagram depends on, with publisher and URL.

## fig1-recognition-gap.svg — the commercialisation pipeline

A conceptual stage diagram authored by SpinUp Forge. Research assets feed a missing
**Recognition** stage that precedes Disclosure → TTO triage → Proof of concept →
Spinout. The claim that the sector's live debate (terms, throughput, capacity) sits
*downstream* of recognition rests on the body sources:

- Royal Academy of Engineering — Spotlight on Spinouts 2026 (average university equity 16%, down from 22%) — https://raeng.org.uk/news/spotlight-on-spinouts-2026
- UKRI spin-out register / formation slowdown 202 → 141 (via Times Higher Education) — https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/slowdown-university-spin-out-creation-wake-call-uk
- Office for Students — financial sustainability (≈45% of providers forecast into deficit) — https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/news-blog-and-events/press-and-media/significant-challenges-continue-to-face-higher-education-finances-with-nearly-half-facing-deficits-in-2025-26/

## fig2-rails-before-scale.svg — the music-industry rails

A conceptual timeline authored by SpinUp Forge contrasting the supply-chain rails
music built before streaming scaled with the rails universities have not. Standard-
establishment anchors shown on the diagram:

- ISRC (International Standard Recording Code) — the recording identifier, IFPI/ISO 3901. The diagram dates IFPI's adoption as the international standard to 1989.
- DDEX (Digital Data Exchange) — the music-industry metadata-exchange standard, founded 2006 — https://ddex.net/about-ddex/
- Content ID — YouTube's audio/video fingerprinting system, launched 2007.

The "universities have none of the equivalent rails" row (no asset identifier, no
metadata standard, no rights registry) is the author's diagnosis, drawn from the
piece's argument; the unmatched-royalties parallel that motivates it is sourced in
the body to The Mechanical Licensing Collective — https://www.themlc.com/illuminating-black-box