Coventry NT is a company formed to market carbon nanostructured products by unique processes developed at the University of Coventry.

Installation and servicing of open source systems.

CTC have developed and are testing a new device for ovulation detection in couples considering in-vitro fertilisation. The innovative continuous temperature monitoring technology underlying this has applications ranging from conception and contraception to general hospital medical temperature measurement. Our patent-pending device will be sold as either an adhesive plaster or a tiny implant and be capable of measuring temperature every 5 -10 minutes, storing this data onboard and then providing it wirelessly to a handheld reader whenever is convenient. Measuring temperature continuously will eliminate the inconvenience and inaccuracy that couples currently face in detecting ovulation to assist natural conception.

Camerge is an algorithm that uses modern CCD/CMOS cameras to their full potential, both cheap camera-phones and high-end professional cameras, adding significant value. One of the most difficult issues with photography, particularly for the amateur, is the combination of lighting, aperture, and exposure time. Camerge solves this problem computationally, and can be applied automatically within cameras. Computational cost is orders of magnitude lower than that of competing 'High Dynamic Range' algorithms, and results are based on a human eye model, dramatically improving perceived image quality. The algorithm can also be applied to CCTV cameras, significantly aiding security staff.

A vast population of small business innovators have limited recourse to conventional means of generating investment. Larger publicly listed companies raise capital by trading company securities on the stock market or through loans from banking institutions. Conversely, the first time entrepreneur with an innovative concept but no prior business record has limited means to obtain investment. The CamI-E aims to revolutionise the fund raising capacity of this segment of the entrepreneurial population. The concept proposed here provides a means for small businesses and start-up companies to generate investment through direct potential customer interaction, thereby enabling the entrepreneur to quickly assess consumer interest and generate investment through positive consumer response.

In vitro diagnostic (IVD) testing constitutes less than 1% of the global US$2,500 billion healthcare industry, but plays the decisive role in most medical decisions, and helps save across the entire healthcare spectrum. Driven by clinical, social and economic pressures coupled with new technologies and IT capabilities, IVD industry is shifting to rapid diagnostic testing (RDT) to minimise the requirement of technical expertise and analysis time. Capnosis exploits a novel nucleic acid- based technology to provide superior RDT products for unmet markets. Our tests efficiently address the two most significant challenges in public healthcare: cost and safety.

A desktop PC to the car.

Website aimed at charities and the general public providing information on charity events.

Methods of serving chilled vodka.

The market for 'exotic' spicy food is a rapidly growing sector in European and US markets. Most alcoholic beverages including beer and wine are poorly suited to accompany spicy dishes as they do not dissolve the active ingredient, chilli, leaving the customer with an unpleasant burn which compromises any further possible culinary experience. We propose to develop and market a functional premium lager that combines the taste and appearance of beer with the ability to provide relief for the burning sensation of spicy foods.

Shrimp is a major seafood product in many Asian countries. 40-50% of the entire shrimp is processed for consumption. The remainder is waste and is discarded. This waste is either used as land fill (causing land pollution) or as an ingredient in the animal feed industry. When this waste is deproteinated and demineralised effectively, chitin, protein, calcium, and axthaxanthin, can be obtained. The deacetylated derivative of chitin is chitosan, which has numerous valuable applications. ChitoSci Solutions intends to exploit the opportunity in the chitin-chitosan market, turning this biowaste into valuable ecologically friendly biopolymers with a new fermentation technology.

Screens located at the back of the cinema seats for ordering food/tickets/future releases.

Each day requires a lot of effort to remember access codes for PC, office and personal email, e-banking, Paypal and a lot of other online accounts. One is constantly reminded (and forced) to change passwords and make them as complicated as possible which makes memorising very difficult. A portable password storage device would allow easy and safe access to all the passwords by protecting them with a single master code. Such an electronic assistant would greatly reduce the amount of detailed information to be memorised and would make the use of the consumer technologies involving security codes much more user-friendly.

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.

An agency for the corporate world.

COMS is a web-based Information Communication Network Infrastructured designed to link departmental outlets to suppliers via the consignment sales line. COMS will serve as a centralized source of communication between the 2 parties, guaranteed to improve management of suppliers, increase cashflow and reduce losses.

CoolCycle is a high-tech company with the aim of providing modern environmentally friendly bicycles and bicycle accessories.

CPD intends to market licences to develo pits intellectual property to cleints in the irrigation pumping and heat exchanger industries.

To sell customised music and or viedo music online.

It is 3am, free-lance architect is racing to meet a key deadline. Without warning, the design package stops responding. Where to get instant help? DEEGURU provides 'one-click' solution to 24-7 remote IT-management and support to small businesses and home offices(SOHO). DEGURU takes over the preventative maintenance and security of client's systems at flat-rate. When needing more support, one mouse-click connects the struggling user and their machine with our expert. DEEGURU targets $30 billion IT-services market for SOHO. Thanks to flexible demand-driven employment of home-based students and IT-experts overseas, it can provide customers with services previously available only to corporate clients.

The product is an ultra sensitive MEMS based detector which will detect the presence of explosive and narcotic by receiving and analysing radio signals emitted from an excited sample of explosive or narcotic from a range of 1 to 10 metres. The device is basically an electro-mechanical microantenna which transforms the electrical energy of time varying signals into mechanical energy.

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.

A distributed air freshening system using their own patent protected micro-capillary technology.

Consultancy business in China.

Technology based systems to assist lifeguards in detectin gunconcious casualties.

To provide a frequent, reliable, fast, comfortable and stress-free airlink between smaller British cities.

Vehicle insurance companies are currently forced to set premiums for customers based on woefully incomplete information - often little more than the driver's age and previous convictions. Drive4Less is a discreet in-vehicle device that records information about the driver's habits, such as when he drives, which roads he takes, how harshly he brakes and accelerates, and how attentive he is. Periodically it sends this information to the insurance company, which uses it to calculate a fairer premium. We wish to license our IP, and we predict that widespread adoption will result in profit for Drive4Less, insurance companies, and many drivers.

More than 270 million people worldwide cannot be free to live in dusty environments due to the increasingly common dust mite allergy. Dust.IN is creating a new generation of drugs to inhibit dust mite allergies. The company will develop compounds that act by blocking the sites of dust mite proteins responsible for the life-threatening symptoms caused in humans. This new attitude towards allergy will 'attack' directly the allergic agent before triggering any human body's response. Dust.IN will definitely bring fresh air into dust mite allergy! Is this the end of vacuum cleaners?

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.

Electronic purse and point-of-sale terminal.

E-ceipts is a state of the art receipt storage and management system. It would replace the current chip and pin integrated circuit with a read/writable micro SD storage card(or similar) that can be read by a PC card reader. This would subsequently allow the replacement of traditional paper receipts with a more dependable digital equivalent, thus eliminating the problem of paper waste and facilitating personal accounting.

Low cost, accurate translation of text via the internet is an unsolved problem. Professional translation costs at least US$50 per page, and present computer translation produces poor output with loss of context and meaning. We present a solution based around minimum wage monolingual workers training an adaptive automatic translation algorithm to maintain context and meaning, and provide translations of native speaker quality. Although inappropriate for legal documents, a vast array of business, news and personal material can be targeted. A price-quality trade-off is provided, and the completely automated translation engine itself will quickly become the best in the market.

Electronic-based foundry for microsystems.

Web page that offers ongoing entertainment.

Virtual vouchers.

The product, Slide & Swivel TM , makes use of a novel concept that enables the seat to slide forward slightly and then rotate towards the car door, allowing face-on loading of the child. This significantly reduces the difficulty in placing and strapping a child into a child car seat. It also aids in the installation of the seat. Slide & Swivel TM is a modular component which has initially been designed for an existing child seat. However, it has the potential to be modified to be incorporated across a range of car seat brands.

To provide a comprehensive environmental design and enrichment service that balances both the needs of the animals and the research.

Software and systems to improve the efficiency of electricity generators.

EFR Engineering - Enivronmrent Friendly Racing - is a technology consultancy focusing on renewable technologies for the automotive sector. The company aims to develop and race prove new greener technologies, such as bio fuels and regenerative systems, through innovative research schemes and then filter the intellectual property through to the general automotive market. As well as developing a large IP portfolio the comapny will carry out specialised cosulatancy work through a vast network of talented engineers in the renewable energy sector.

Eigentunes is a novel technology that can search a music database of unlimited size, and instantly return acoustically similar music to one or more query tracks. Users can refine results, working with the system until they get the music they like. People with money to spend are time poor. Eigentunes can search a database of any size and deliver a handful of tracks specifically tailored to that individual's tastes. The proposed delivery mechanism will take consumers beyond web based Internet use and will superbly position the company to exploit developing trends in mobile Internet, as typified by 3-G phones.

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EM-DDT is signal processing firmware company that has developed a patented audio restoration technique to restore audio buzz associated with mobile phone electromagnetic interferences (GSM Buzz). EM-DDT's 'KILL THE BUZZ' platform technology focuses on 3 markets: (1) Hearing aid, 6 million units. (2) Car stereo, 10 million units. (3) Computer sound card, 200 million units. EM-DDT allows hearing aid users to use mobile phones, eliminates danger for car drivers due to unexpected audio interferences, and enhances computer audio by 50dB SNR. EM-DDT is only weeks away from functional prototypes and is currently having customers who need immediate consultancy.

The ePad electronic notepad phone aims to combine the connectivity, small size and low weight of a modern electronic device with the easy-to-use, adaptable and natural feel of a paper pad through the use of e-ink technology. Applications range from business devices to low cost educational aides for students in third world countries

To automate and simplify photo processing using e-commerce.

Interactive internet service with an ethnic focus.

An online model search agency and dating service.

Faces-2-Places is planned to be an online social networking company. It offers the 'ultimate blog' experience. Users can upload the routes they have taken to visit places and annotate them with comments and media files for other users to share. As more users overlay their routes popular destinations will appear as crossing points. Users will be able to meet other users sharing the same favourite destinations. Alternatively users will be able to discover the most popular destinations in new cities and countries they are visiting. The service that Faces-2-Places provides could ultimately augment current established online social network services.

FastFoils will manufacture add-on hydrofoils for personal watercraft, in particular windsurfers. FastFoils will construct the hydrofoils from carbon fibre and they will be sold as add-ons so that customers can attach them to their own windsurfers. These hydrofoils will be easy to fit to the standard windsurfer, simple to use and will add an exhilarating extra dimension to windsurfing.

A versatile device for effortless and non-intruding birth conrol. With FemWise technology, the ear-plug device monitors the user's ovulation rhythm.

Fig Tree has re-evaluated the value of traditional consulting models when applied to understanding markets in some of the poorer regions of the world (bottom of the pyramid). We offer a new approach better suited to help companies meet the needs of this market, through accessing the unique knowledge pool of NGO's and academics.