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ooZaw.com
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The University of Cambridge provides an abundance of resources on entrepreneurship resources and opportunities to learn about the insights and the practice of entrepreneurial processes. How do we then duplicate a similar entrepreneurial environment from Cambridge and that of other great universities to benefit tertiary students around the world interested in entrepreneurship? How do we spread the teachings of entrepreneurship to these students? How do we spread the wisdom that entrepreneurs impart in their speeches and lectures at these universities? ooZaw.com Spreading the Teachings of Entrepreneurship.
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Pasta Master
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Pasta Master is a new range of products designed specifically to cook perfect pasta easily, conveniently and safely without the need for a conventional cooker. With a range of products in the Pasta Master family, initially beginning with a basic version aimed at students and progressing to larger versions with more functionality for families, all your pasta cooking needs can be met. These products will be far more affordable than the pasta cookers designed for the professional market and will plug the gap in the domestic market.
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Pildex
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Pildex ensures that your patient, partner or relative gets their medication on time and at the correct dosage, without the worry of reading the medicine label incorrectly or dealing with complicated dosage regimes. Recent figures show that the elderly are dispensed the wrong drugs in over half of care homes and 1.3 million people are seriously injured each year due to errors in medication dispensing. Pildex is developing a unique electronic device that eliminates human error in the dispensing of pills to patients, regardless of the complexity of drug regime.
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PostPeerReview.org
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The absence of an organized 'post peer review' process causes difficulty in efficiently assessing an experiment's reproducibility. This is unlikely to change because (1) readers of journal publications rarely communicate with the bench scientist who actually performed the published experiments and (2) there is a lack of cohesion among manuscripts, protocols from the Internet, and methodology/review forums. The costs of this problem are (1) frustration for young experimentalists and (2) wasted public funding in unnecessary duplication. Our solution is to create a web resource called www.PostPeerReview.org or www.ppr.org that promotes interaction among bench scientists. This web resource will devise and apply a reproducibility index based on feedback on published experiments and provide a wiki-like tool/database for new experiments and protocols.
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NANOCOLOMBIA
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NANOCOLOMBIA partners with scientists in Latin American countries to transform knowledge in nanosciences into entrepreneurial ventures. Using a proprietary methodology, NANOCOLOMBIA scouts for research scientist in the nanosciences and nanotechnology fields, funds fundamental research, generates new ventures concepts, stimulates applied research, directs and measures projects development and supports scientists in the process of business development. In addition, NANOCOLOMBIA's Capital Division has a diversified portfolio comprised not only of stocks, options and revenues from the entrepreneurial ventures generated, but also by globally traded nanotechnology related stocks.
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NanoThin
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NanoThin dedicates to the development and commercialization solar energy solutions based on Thin PV Polymer Solar Technologies.
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NaviBike
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London is congested, polluted, and public transport sucks. The use of bicycles could solve a number of imminent congestion problems and is an environment friendly solution to reduce inner city pollution by increasing personal mobility. We propose a self-funding scheme hereby bicycles are provided for free and a 2 coin deposit, much like shopping trolleys. This will ensure that the bikes are eventually returned to a central location after being used. The cycles also contain a GPS and mobile phone, assisting in security and logistics whilst providing revenue streams via SMS-paid locking, navigation and location specific advertising.
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NeoHeal
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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.
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noegenesis
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Peer review is an essential part of academic research, but as information technology has evolved, publishers, who were once important contributors, have become parasitic to the process. Although most reviewers aren't paid, and editors only to limited degrees, publishers overwhelmingly secure the copyright of articles, sometimes charging prohibitive amounts for access to them. Ultimately, all parties involved have grown displeased with this system, except for the publishers, of course; but their presence is largely dispensable. We propose a system, borrowing ideas from on-line social networks, which aims to put authors more directly in contact with their readers.
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Nology
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Neural imaging is an exciting area of innovation because it can measure raw, pre-verbalised responses to a stimulus (such as advertising) which eliminates the difficulties consumers have expressing what they are feeling and thinking. Nology would be a research and umbrella consultancy company working in the practical applications of neuroscience for marketing. Nology would use various imaging techniques to test spikes in brain waves. It would combine these technologies with experimental psychology to help companies develop their adverts for maximum effect. Nology's consultancy work would interpret the results scientifically, providing clients with a full report on the implications of tests.
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