AromaFlora aims to grow the finest quality Fairtrade fragranced roses in Kenya and deliver them to your door here in Europe. AromaFloras strong focus on corporate social responsibility and our use of renewable energy sources and environmentally friendly techniques will help establish the AromaFlora brand and enable the production of Fairtrade approved roses targeted at the 340 million European rose market. Revenues generated from these roses will fund the in-house development of AromaFloras fragrance technology, leading to the generation of our value added roses. AromaFloras Fast Flower Model will further increase profit margins by excising the middle men.

BioBuddies is a revolutionary new approach to preventing tooth decay using pro-biotics. Despite modern dentistry techniques, millions of people the world over have experienced the pain, and dentistry costs, asociated with tooth decay. Biobuddies mission is to use its technology to make the experience of tooth decay a thing of the past with an innovative new treatment that is highly effective.

A fabless semiconductor company, BOPPHY Technologies will design, develop and market innovative digital integrated circuits for broadband communications over the existing electrical infrastructure. Broadband over powerlines (BOP) gives customers high-speed internet access through the existing power grid network and enables utility companies to add data services to their offering. By exploiting state of the art modulation and coding techniques, our implementation of the physical layer (PHY) will ease competition against other broadband services by increasing current data rates of cable and DSL by up to a factor of 10.

Recent work at the University of Coventry has led to the discovery of a new supercapacitive material capable of storing 10 times more electrical energy than competing materials. Consequently, the patent-protected Cam-Cap supercapacitor is able to combine the large energy storage capacity of batteries with the rapid power delivery capabilities of capacitors to meet new customer needs that cannot be satisfied using other existing energy storage materials. The advantages of the Cam-Cap supercapacitors are particularly apparent in the rapidly expanding high performance energy storage markets associated with environmentally friendly alternatives in the transport and power generation industries.

Cambfix is a business prospect that provides innovative, high quality medical devices for use in orthopaedic and trauma surgery. Every year there are 1.5 million ankle and wrist fractures, which costs the healthcare industry $3 billion. Over one third of these cases develop a complication during treatment. Cambfixs first generation products have a patentable technology that addresses these complications in their entirety and can thereby save the healthcare industry $800 million in ankle and wrist fractures alone. The product pipeline also includes fixators for other fractured bones, soft tissue corrections, paediatric, veterinary and military use. Our products are non-invasive, offer a superior mode of treatment and will reduce patient morbidity by decreasing complications to less than 1%.

Coventry Performance Solutions (CPS) has identified a current market opportunity to undertake performance improvement using advanced control technology in the pulp & paper and batch fermentation industries. In the past seven years advanced control has matured in academia and can now handle the fast, unstable and nonlinear dynamics seen in these industries. The close partnership with the University of Coventry Control Group, who have pioneered many of these advancements, as well as the 35 years industrial experience of their Chief Executive Officer, makes CPS ideally positioned to bring the most recent developments to new process sectors.

Creation of a web service that compares a particular shopping list and finds the total cost of the item and delivery using all online grocery stores. This is an effective way for consumers to obtain, in real terms, the best value for money online grocery store.

c2i aims to become a world-leading carbon fibre composites design, engineering and production company. It will enjoy high growth and margins due to its low cost Slovak manufacturing base and low cost production processes yielding 30-50% total cost savings in a $42 billion industry. c2i will design and manufacture its own products, the first being a revolutionary carbon fibre wheelchair. c2i will also pursue subcontracting for the aerospace, automotive, boat and leisure industry. c2is first contract is a revolutionary prefabricated palm tree house aimed at 5 star hotels and wealthy families gardens.

There are 130,000 patients worldwide who undergo peritoneal kidney dialysis using 200 million consumable fluid packs annually. Users under the current system have a 1 in 200 chance of getting a serious infection every year during the connection process. Due to the poor design of current systems, patients experience gatal infections, irritating rashes, general discomfort and difficulty in operating the critical equipment. ConnectEases technology dramatically reduces the rate of infection and training time required, whilst addressing the issues of patient comfort and ergonomics. Expected revenues are 500 million by 2010 and 1.3 billion by 2015.

Thermophotovoltaics (TPV) is a new technology that promises an environmental friendly way of transforming heat into electic energy using natural gas or biomass. Special interest has been given lately to the great commercial potentials that low power portable TPV generators appear to have. Nevertheless in Europe a gap exists between this new technology and its commercial development. This business plan aims to fill this gap. We intend to provide energy efficienty in locations for people and organisation which are difficult to access or do not have a steady source of energy through an environmentally friendly technology.

DVDNOW will enter the US$10bn DVD rental market. This is a mature market, recently revolutionised by www.netflix.com (US$600m revenue) and copycat businesses based on web subscriptions for mail-delivery DVDs. DVDNOW has identified a significant weakness in the Netflix et al. business model, which can be exploited at relatively low cost, using existing technologies coupled in a novel way. This allows a substantial expansion on the Netflix model market size, while further eroding the core of the bricks-and-mortar DVD rental market. In a global market where clone companies are competing simply on cost, DVDNOW confers a considerable competitive advantage.

EnvAls novel technology is capable of recycling 100% of the waste obtained from post consumer drink cartons (i.e. Tetra Paks). The process recovers clean aluminium that can be sold to the aluminium industry and generates oils and gases suitable for heat or electricity production. EnvAl will contribute to the sustainable development of society by generating profit and by reducing the amount of materials that are currently being landfilled. EnvAl is seeking the partnership of an early stage investor who will provide financial backing to finish building the first demonstration equipment, and then remain with the company to realise its full potential.

Our proprietary technology combines nanotechnology and material science to provide simple, accurate and inexpensive security encryption through surface coating with DNA nano-enriched ink.

Despite recent advances, the pharmaceutical industry is still pursuing expensive, and lengthy, approaches to the discovery of oncology drugs with limited efficacy and safety. This results in treatments which are unpleasant for the patient and susceptible to a reduction in effectiveness (resistance). Using innovative genetic manupulation tools, Horizon Discovery has access to a new technology which will allow itself, and partner pharmaceutical companies, to develop cost-effective medicines that are optimally tailored to specific cancer defects. By taking such a focused, 'personalised medicine', approach, Horizon Discovery will be able to reduce drug development costs and supply better medicines to the patient.

IDLink is an engineering start-up founded by Coventry University PhD students intent on commercializing hardware-based wireless security devices. The proof-of-concept product will make computers fully secure from unauthorised access and will be a strong deterrent to theft. The technology will be developed for use in a variety of consumer electronics and licensed to Original Equipment Manufacturers, with projected revenues in 2006 of US$20M. Currently a patent application and a working prototype are being prepared, with licensing activities slated to start in Q3 2005. IDLink: the future of hacker-proof security.

InfoLog offers two products. The first allows easy and free paper publishing and reviewing for less experienced professionals and students. The second allows companies to efficiently build and manage databases of expert knowledge. Both products are based on the idea that the users of a database whould have maximum access, i.e. building, maintaining and querying that database should be an easy and simple process.

The InterGenomics Group seeks to transform modern medicine by incorporating complex genetic information into the care of individual patients. IgG has developed the first practical method to accurately predict and alter the genetic risk of common human diseases based on each person's unique Pattern of Polymorphism. IgG intends to market a series of predictive genetic tests that can not only reveal each person's genetic destiny, but also empower them with the knowledge to change it. The ability to predict and alter genetic risk will fundamentally transorm clinical medicine by introducing personalised disease prevention using predictive genetic tests.

With US$33.2 billion spent on R&D in 2003 by U.S. drug companies alone, the number of drugs reaching the market is strikingly small. This is not surprising, since current 'out-of-the-box' target identification techniques make verification prohibitively long and costly. LAMA is a scientific consultancy providing customised data analysis and management solutions in drug discovery and disease treatment strategy development for high-throughput bioarray technologies in acadmeia, medical research and industry. Our innovative Gene Links Search Engine technology accelerates delivery of high-quality drug targets at lower identification and validation costs.

Linguit is a human language technology company whose first product is Nuggets, an SMS based internet search engine. Nuggets wallows mobile phone subscribers to text their questions to a service number and receive answers within seconds. The market for premium information services is expected to grow to $100 million by 2006 in the UK alone, a fraction of the billion dollar information services market. Other companies provide SMS based question and answer services but use people to search the internet, whereas Nuggets is automated. Nuggets is much faster than these competing services and costs much less to provide.

Depression and anxiety are poorly diagnosed in primary care. There is a clear need for a reliable, convenient diagnostic system for use in this setting. MoodLab combines cutting-edge technology with statistical models in a hand-held device to provide a reliable, office-based, diagnostic system for depression and anxiety for use I nprimary and specialist care.

The product is a MEMS and liquid crystal based optical switch for 'All Optical Networks'. One embodiment of the device deals with electromagnetic control of micro-mirrors, the second embodiment is on control of light math using an electro-optic material and the third embodiment deals with control of micro mirrors using liquid crystals. The product aims to remove the limitations of optical switches introduced by Lecent and Tellium by a considerable extent.

Repindex stands for 'Representation Index'. It is a tool which facilitates analysis of the stream of language. By continuously searching selected Internet sources in real time, Repindex allows the user to track the development of the meaning of language items and to extract value. Repindex is also used to search for information over time and make comparisons between results in different groups, such as different language media. Repindex is based on Discourse Stream Analysis developed in Mark Perkins' PhD thesis. It relies on linguistic principles of identifying and describing patterns in large bodies of text.

Secure Architecture is combining the physical and information technology fields by using security as the segue. Secure Architecture will provide security services using a unique method uncommonly known as 'transparent security' to test the security of a organizations at the perimeter, physical and logic level (information technology). Secure Architecture will employ Architects, Information Technology, and Security experts all under one roof. Transparent security by definition is a security process that can be easily overloaded, thus not being obvious.

SimuGen is a gene profiling company applying techniques from computational biology and wet lab research to provide cheaper ethical healthcare. SimuGen creates value by bringing to market an analytically powerful solution to ascribe the toxicity of compounds, thereby extensively reducing downstream animal testing. This transcribes into vastly reduced costs and timelines in preclinical testing. Protection of our assets will be mediated through our proprietary databank of gene expression profiles and will be reinforced by future patents on our gene combinations and algorithms. As a platform technology our solution is easily transferable to a range of other markets, including personal care.

We have developed a prototype of a mobile phone application which provides a very low cost and secure mechanism for detecting the current location of a mobile evice. Our aim is to build on this technology to provide an array of essential utilities, accessible from within the same mobile and web interface. The combination of these utilties and the user database is Spot On - the mobile, location based social networking platform.

There will be over 123 million broadband subscribers worldwide in 2005 - most will have dedicated land lines and enjoy a high degree of reliability. Taira VoIP is designed to extend customers' land lines to VoIP via their DSL service. This extension allows the benefits of VoIP (low cost calling and convenient roaming with a static number) without relinquishing the reliability of a land line.

The Maths Republic aims to be a speciality software house. The first step is to create Mathematics Education software that will be attractive to school and pre-university children worldwide. The objective of the software is to be an effective tool in building their understanding of the mathematical sciences. Subsequently, we expect to move to software for Scientific and Technical Computing and products to cater for Popular Science.

Ubicam (UBIQuitous Active Media) aims to become the world leader in the provision of event-based, real-time processing services. Ubicam will deliver the next generation of highly adaptable solutions that allow users to process, manipulate and formulate complex strategies, in real-time, to rapidly-changing data sources such as financial data and weather measurements. Ubicam's novel core technology, enables real-time implements of complex models such as the ones used for derivatives and risk management, which are currently not computable in real-time, with existing technologies. Ubicam also aims to provide additional real-time processing services, such as reliability and high-availability for maintaining the quality of real-time services within desirable limits.

ViewPoint Prediction Software (VPS) significantly augments the business intelligence capabilities of the firm by replacing traditional time consuming market research processes by employing natural language processing techniques, customer opinions are automatically extracted from multiple sources that are rich in subjective viewpoints. These include sources such as newspaper editorials, letters to the editors, web postings, blogs, chat-room transcriptions, radio transcripts, corporate e-mails and questionnaires.