Schmode's first product, the Light Tile, will make the surfaces of a room glow. As the technology develops, surfaces will change colour. Schmode will offer the first off-the-shelf electroluminescent product for designers or commercial and personal spaces.

GEO has developed a novel, in-situ testing technique applicable to several niche construction quality control (CQC testing market, estimated at over 35m pa) within the rapidly growing environmental industry.

ArrayScreen will exploit 'microarray' or '2DNA Chip' technology and the information provided by the Human Genome Project to develop revolutionary diagnostic tests to predict a variety of medical conditions such as cardiovascular disease.

To provide generic and efficient protein refolding technology to facilitate the production of recombinant proteins using bacteria hosts.

Apply the latest power electronic technologies to solar energy applications, to produce cost effective solar products for developed and developing countries.

A patentable solution to provide self-erecting scaffolding towers.

Light Blue Optics are developing holographic display and projection systems, leading to cheap, bright, lightweight, pocket-sized video projectors.

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.

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%.

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.