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afterGRAD
Provide employers with access to prepared graduates, by helping students fulfil their career potential. Provide focus training and link students with graduate recruitment opportunities.
AllerNova
A punative drug development company that aims to revolutionise the prevention of life threatening food allergies, such as those caused by gluten, nuts and seafood. AllerNova intends to develop drugs which allow susceptible individuals to eat a normal diet.
Anti-Adblock
A large proportion of internet "content" sites (media, search, webmail, etc) rely on advertising revenue for support. Frequently this advertising is performed via click-through images and links. However, this client-side filtering of such material is becoming increasingly popular - the fastest growing share of the browser market is now "Firefox" (over 23M downloads), for which the second most popular extension is a client-side filter (with over 1M users). Such filtering has been available for several years, but is only now becoming "mass market", and thus having a direct impact on the global US$10Bn/yr internet advertising revenue that allows many content sites to survive.
Anti-AdBlock provides a robust solution to this problem, involving a relatively straightforward modification to web-server software. The most common web-server in the market is Apache, which is open source and allows for production of derivative works.
Anti-AdBlock is seeking funds to obtain a US Software patent to protect intellectual property before licensing modified web-server "know-how" to internet media and advertising companies.
Azadigm
As global populations expand, the need for the efficient use of diminishing farmland and the maximisation of crop return is becoming increasingly crucial. Environmental pressures and the rapidly developing resistance of crops to conventional pesticides have raised interest in the study of more ecologically friendly methods of insect population control. Additionally, future pest control methods will need to address certain other criteria including but not limited to; safety, specificity and environmental impact. Control methods that address these concerns will have a significant advantage over existing products. Azadigm aims to address the problems associated with current pesticide usage.
b-Sure
PBT hold the right to a novel technology that allow first trimester screening for foetal genetic diseases, such as Down's Syndrome, using a low-risk, low-cost blood test.
Bacup
Bacup is a multi-functional handset charger, which has the functions of data backup, battery charging (both with and without external power supply) and MMC/CF card reading. It is an ultimate product that realizes the idea of 'UNCONSCIOUS DATA BACKUP' and 'HANDSET STATION'.
Blue Instruments
Blue Instruments has developed a technology that can access the rotor in a safe and reliable manner. This will enable the lifetime of turbin egenrators to be extended by up to 10% by applying optimum adjustments to the generation system.
Book4Buiness
Online booking for internet and mobile phone users.
Coventry Cell Networks
To provide a software solution for in silico drug discovery and prediction of drug side effects. Ccnet exploit the explosion of post-genomic data produced by high-throughput technologies such as DNA microarrays and portein chips.
Coventry Insitu GeoMeasurements (CIGM)
An environmental engineering firm specialising in testing slurry trench barrier walls. These structures are used by the contamination industries to limit pollution migration. CIGM aims to provide a comprehensive testing solution to ensure compliance with the mandatory Construction Quality Assurance (CQA) requirements.
Coventry Temperature Concepts
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.
Capnosis
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.
ChitoSci Solutions
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.
Critical Point Dynamics
CPD intends to market licences to develo pits intellectual property to cleints in the irrigation pumping and heat exchanger industries.
Distributed Air Freshening
A distributed air freshening system using their own patent protected micro-capillary technology.
Dolphin Solutions
Technology based systems to assist lifeguards in detectin gunconcious casualties.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hygiene Plastics
Hygiene Plastics have developed a way of making plastics microbicidal.
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.
InvisiLAN
InvisiLAN has developed and patented infrared (IR) wireless technology that offers high speed data connections. Home and office users may instantly connect and collaborate in a wireless environment with a mobile ocmputer, printer, wireless modems, local area networks (LANs), cellular phones, and other devices.
Jumpleads.com
Internet shopping.
Keystroke Authentication
To provide software solutions that enable security on top of traditional encryption and authentication packages.
Medicines For Humanity
One-third of the world's population does not have access to essential medicines. Pharmaceutical companies have reputational and financial incentives to donate medicines. However, the medical donations process is not meeting its potential. The key problem is a lack of accurate and comprehensive information on unmet medical needs and sources of donations. The MedMap database will provide this, thereby facilitating communication between donors, recipients, and donation channels, and raising public awareness of good medical donations. By consolidating information crucial to all stakeholders, Medicines for Humanity will enable the distribution of the right medicines to the right people at the right time.
Nanotipology
Nanotipology has developed the technology to make a field emitting tip that increases the resolution of existing instruments by a factor of ten.
NeoHeal
Sutures are the oldest method of wound closure and consist of a string or thread used to realign wound or blood vessel edges. The European and US wound closure market accrued $4B in revenue in 2005. The current wound closure market strategy is to focus on novel technology that minimizes scarring and decreases wound recovery time. However products currently in market provide limited protection from bacterial infection, do not promote tissue healing, and delay wound recovery by releasing acidic residues. NeoSutures will meet these unmet consumer needs by employing nanotechnology to promote tissue repair and wound recovery.
PETRONICS
Petronics Pty Ltd is a biotechnology company offering solutions in the removal and recycling of oil. The company has developed PetroSol to fulfill this market niche. PetroSol, a microbial mixture, has numerous advantages. It is able to naturally degrade the oil in a shorter timeframe than other methods, can recover approximately 30% of crude oil from waste, a recovery not obtainable by other methods and most importantly it is environmentally friendly.
PinPoint Technologies
PinPoint Technologies will address the aircraft corrosion detection and maintenance market using a comprehensive system of microsensors and analysis software.
Poseidon Watermarkers Ltd
A product that is cost effctive and versatile for the provision of day to day and emergency desalinated frsh drinking water.
PRoB
PRoB has developed a novel current sensing technology which implements the Rogowski (air-cored) current sensing technique through an innovative PCB (Printed Circuit Board) design. The product name, PRoB, stands for Printed Rogowski Board. The novel current probe has lower manufacturing costs (by as much as 30%) and weight (by as much as 40%) through significant reduction of copper usage, and higher accuracy as compared to the existing technologies. Since the technology is innovative and critical, there is great market potential.
RemRom Medical Devices
RemRom Medical Devices is a company that will specialise in the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of medical devices used in minimally invasive surgery (MIS). RemRom aims to become a world leading medical device company by capitalising on the market opportunity created by a paradigm shift expected in the multi-billion dollar MIS market. This shift will be due to a groundbreaking surgical procedure, known as NOTES, which enables surgeons to perform 'scarless' operations. Our primary IP will break down the largest barrier to the widespread acceptance of NOTES. RemRom seeks funding to launch our flagship product and expand our product portfolio.
Roleplay Technologies
To create interactive simulations of how people communicate with one another. Engaging conversation with a virtual character.
Sensergen
Senswergen is developing a technology platform focused on delvering the next generation of diagnostic systems for the control of food allergy.
The ManuGrip
A glove-like device designed to aid the everyday lives of millions of manualy disabled people. It is a one-size-fits-all neoprene glove fitted with a unique device for 'gripping' utensils.
TouchSight
TouchSight are a new startup company based in cambridge who together with help of focus groups for the visually impaired, have developed a new innovative mobility aid. We have pioneered a glove-based system, the TOUCHSIGHT VISION MITT. This enables the user to 'sense' their surroundings using ultransonic sensors and vibration feedback actuators, whilst keeping the palm of the hand free for other tasks.
Voice Recognition SMS
To enable mobile phone users to create text messages without using the keypad, through the use of intelligent voice recognition technology.
Way To Say
Way To Say brings conversation simulation tochnology to the consumer mass market. A dating gmae for the internet generation.
Wheelchair Drive
Development of a low-cost, detachable power unit to fit 70% of the UK's 400,000 manual wheelchairs - offering power, steering and regenerative braking for the wheelchair user or an attendant at a much lower price than a powerchair.