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FITO BioSolutions
The microarray market is rapidly growing and this growth is primarily driven by the introduction of innovative technologies and the establishment of niche markets. We have developed a novel platform that extends the reach of this technology to new market opportunities and we have developed a plan to create a niche market in five years.
Flexibit Solutions
Flexibit Solutions has created a revolutionary line of home and office furniture using technology first developed for the space industry. Our furniture items fold away to minimal proportions when not in use. However, by using newly developed materials the furniture is incredibly strong and durable when deployed.
Floating Clinic
Our mission is to establish a fully-funded Floating Clinic to facilitate the provision of basic healthcare services in remote parts of Timor Leste. The Floating Clinic, a medically equipped and staffed boat, will travel around the mainland of Timor Leste and its offshore islands. The project will be undertaken in collaboration with a local healthcare provider, responsible for the day to day operations. An extensive fundraising campaign will be conducted in Australia, Singapore and the UK to raise funds to support the Floating Clinic. It is intended as a demonstration project, with long term viability assessed after 5 years.
FluoroDerm
FluoroDerm is a UV 'detection and protection' company dedicated to developing next generation suncare products. Our first product will be FluoroFun, a novel and practical form of zinc cream which changes colour when the wearer has been exposed to the maximum recommended dose of UV radiation. This product not only alerts the customer when to move out of the sun, but also protects them from the harmful effects of UV rays due to the sun blocking properties of zinc cream. FluoroFun's unique, practical UV indication and exciting colour changing properties will appeal to children, parents and outdoor enthusiasts.
FlyDyne Ltd
FlyDyne (from Flywheel-Dynamics) combines the benefits of two proven technologies to make an improved supercharger for an internal combustion engine.
Food Enterprise Project
Food entrepreneurship - whether small catering companies or corner-store take-away restaurants is one of the most common forms of entrepreneurship in deprived communities. In the United States, food and hospitality businesses are the largest contributors to small business job creation, but unfortunately also suffer from below-average survival rates, with only 43.8% of firms lasting four years. Starting in Philadelphia, USA as a for-profit social enterprise, the Food Enterprise Project will develop a preferred channel to market for food entrepreneurs from disadvantaged communities, boosting business survival rates and spurring the creation of fulfilling jobs and dynamic businesses in areas of economic deprivation.
Force-Sensitive Rubber Bearing
The product is a self-contained force-sensitive rubber bearing which provides a measure of the dynamic force under which it is operating.
freeNETS
To implement communication in the Western world with open source ideas with hardware handed down as 'yesterday's computers'.
GA Solutions (UK) Ltd
GA Soltuions hav edeveloped a series of algorithms for speedin gup computation involved in 3D computer graphics, geometric computing and modelling of electromagnetic fields.
Gas Technologies
The G-Tech gas-exchanger is a product that allows access to the interior of reactor furnaces even when it is in operation with toxic or flammable gases, allowing customers the possibility of in-situ monitoring and sampling of their products.
Gecko Advertising
Gecko Advertising has developed patentable technology to seamlessly place virtual adverts and products into live image and video content. The dynamic nature of our advertising model provides substantial commercial advantages since adverts may be targeted to specific geographic regions, demographics and, eventually, to individuals. Moreover, for televised sports ground perimeter advertising we are able to provide guaranteed coverage and a number of new differentiated products, in addition to reduced costs. We are seeking start up funds to establish a limited company, investigate the patentability of our technology and to fund initial product development.
Genome Ink
Our proprietary technology combines nanotechnology and material science to provide simple, accurate and inexpensive security encryption through surface coating with DNA nano-enriched ink.
Global Village
Global Village is an internet website which allows web users to search multiple Social Networking Websites, such as Bebo, MySpace and Facebook, simultaneously. Gone are the days when you have to register for over a dozen online networks when trying to find old friends. Global Village provides a gateway to the many mainstream and niche networking sites available online, allowing you not only to search all networking sites with one click, but to easily compare the services provided by each site and help you decide with whom to register.
GlobalEZ
Contemporary communication technology has proved the will of the individual to share, whether it is knowledge (Wikipedia), property (Open Office) or hobbies and feelings (internet forums). However, internet surfers are far from being rewarded or making a non-virtual profit for their sharing. Yachin Ivry, an Israeli nanoscience PhD student at Coventry University, has identified this potential and naturally thought on GlobalEZ. The goal of GlobalEZ goal is to create a reliably supervised, yet competitive e-commerce centre. It is going to develop the individuals' trade market in the internet leaning on a smart and origin system.
GlucoMedix
Diabetes is a serious epidemic facing the industrialised world, estimated to affect over 8% of the population by 2010. The major challenge faced by diabetics today is to accurately monitor their blood glucose levels. Failure to do so can lead to serious medical consequences. Current solutions involve costly invasive and inconvenient blood measurements. Therefore there is a significant unmet need for a non-invasive and reliable blood glucose monitoring device, which would be capable of continuous blood glucose monitoring. We intend to develop a non-invasive blood glucose monitoring machine, which could be used by diabetics and non-diabetics alike.
GlucoTorch
The GlucoTorhc is a revolutionary new concept in the field of blood glucose testing for diabetes: a completely non-invasive means of measuring glucose levels quickly and painlessly.
GreenPowerGenerators
Reduction in power generation costs will reduce the electricity charge for customers. Two major costs in all power stations are Equipment and Maintenance costs. Higher efficiencies also cheapen electricity charges and benefit environment. Reliability is a very important issue in power stations. Each blackout can cause damage to the tune of billions of pounds. Most blackout caused by the failures of turbine generators. GreenPowerGenerators has developed a novel brushless doubly-fed generator for wind and wave power stations. The novel generator has less manufacturing costs (by down to 10%) and maintenance costs (by down to 60%) and is more efficient (by up to 5%) and more reliable. It operates in a wider range of speeds and introduces higher power quality into the grid (i.e. less harmonic pollution). The market for this technology is largely composed of power plant suppliers. Electrical motor and generator manufacturers are also the target companies. Since the technology is innovative and critical, there is great market potential.
Health India
The Indian health system is in a dissaray. there is no system to for individuals to tack their health or the health of their children. We intend to provide a system by which would fix this issue.
Health Xtra
A toolkit to enable smaller companies to provide self-help services for confidential psychological and lifestyle assessment, goal coaching and guidance.
Healthcare Recommendation Website
The 'do-it-yourself medicine' mentality in today's society, combined with the need for effective preventative healthcare strategies presents a unique business opportunity. Our business idea involves creating a website that delivers free, personalized preventative healthcare recommendations for patients and their families. The website will interact with patients and provide health advice specific to their individual profiles as well as information on local healthcare services and products. The website will generate revenue from personalized advertising of products and services related to the website's recommendations. This service will simplify healthcare and allow patients to easily take responsibility for their own health.
Hermes
Hermes will deliver high quality, highly customised, daily, sector specific headline news to the stressed and time-poor car and public transport commuter using dedicated technology and proprietary software.
High Performance Alloys
Production f advanced materials to provide customers with top quality high-technology products at much lower prices.
Homelink Ltd
Works with new residential developments to offer residents a 'hassle free computing service'.
Horizon Discovery
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.
Hygiene Plastics
Hygiene Plastics have developed a way of making plastics microbicidal.
i-Spy
An active exhibition guide audio player using a unique beacon system to identify its location, provides information on nearby exhibits.
I.E. Solutions
King's Corner is a relatively unknown card game. It's simple, addictive and fun to play as a pass-time. As of 2006, there are no high-quality mass-market versions available, for the PC and mobile platforms. I.E. Solutions proposes to develop an innovative virtual version of the game. Unlike other virtual card games, it will not be a simple port from the traditional arena to a computing environment. Instead, a new approach will be used, giving the software a unique user interface, high-quality graphics and ease of use. We will later develop similar-styled software utilities for these platforms.
IC Medical
IC Medical is a spin off manufacturing company dedicated to the manufacture and distribution of a new device in the ophthalmic instrument market.
Idea
To provide custom and pre-made RNA or DNA competitors for quantitative RT-PCR assays.
IDLink
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.
IDLink Technologies
A new security radio frequency identification (RFID) technology for portable devices. The security mechanism is composed of a chip embedded into the mobile device that wirelessly authenticated the user against a separate RFID chip.
iGive
IGive is a new approach to charitable transactions that offers donors choices and improves accountability, transparency and efficiency in charitable projects receiving aid.
Independent Work
Independent Work will put independent schools requiring teachers in touch with teachers already in the system. It will be a newsletter delivered for free to independent schools every week. Its content will be advertisements for teaching posts, paid for by the recruiting school. The logistics will be straightforward. Schools will pay for and email their adverts to the company by a certain day each week. These advertisements will then be typeset and a number of copies of the newsletter delivered to independent schools around the country. They will then be made available in social spaces such as staff rooms.
Info Co-op
Many small-scale Kenyan coffee farmers are forced to sell their coffee at a loss. The marketing structure makes farmers powerless once they turn their coffee into factory. They don't have access to information to be able to negotiate a better payment from local traders. Info Co-op seeks to make an impact on the current situation in Kenya. With a combination of affordable information and financial service optimized for small-scale coffee farmers, Info Co-op is trying to deliver farmers in Kenya means to plan spread the risk in coffee growing and resources to put the plan into practice.
InfoLog
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.
InfraSensor
InfraSensor is dveeloping a portfolio of patent-pending, wireless sensor networks (WSN) that will be used by utility companies to monitor critical urban structures.
InsTech Inc.
InsTech has developed a non-invasive blood glucose monitoring system (GlucoMon).
IntelliTOY
Children's computer game to develo dextrous abilities.
Interactive TV Solutions
Enabling companies to do business via the medium of interactive TV.
InterGenomics Group
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.
International Consensus Games Network
A cnetralised internet site from which consensus games can be run.