- ADTELLIGENCE(University of Mannheim, Germany)
ADTELLIGENCE provides the leading advertising targeting platform for the social web. Social networks, Web 2.0 sites, and social web providers can monetise their platforms more effectively by using their members’ real interests, demographics, and geographic information – matching them with the most relevant ads – all within a fully automated closed-loop marketing process for advertisers.
- Biomedical Modeling (Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia)
Biomedical Modeling brings innovation to the market of medical simulation software. Reconstructive surgery is a very complex imaginative problem of spatial manipulation of transplantation tissue shapes, forms, and placement in 3D space that are currently done in surgeons’ heads.
Its 3D simulation is used in plastic surgery clinics to help surgeons better understand patient expectations, take spatial measurements of patient body, and aid in surgery planning.
- CamGaN Ltd. (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
CamGaN can make white LEDs (light-emitting diodes) 2-5 times cheaper than current technologies. Lighting consumes 20% of the world’s electricity. White LEDs are much more energy efficient than incandescent light bulbs (~10 times) and fluorescent lights (~3 times).
CamGaN, using its unique growth recipes, successfully achieved growth of GaN structures on 6" silicon wafers while maintaining high lighting efficiency. By adopting CamGaN’s recipes, the cost of LEDs can be reduced by up to five times.
- EasyCheck (Ruppin Academic Center, Israel)
EasyCheck develops the "MyBK" (My Breast Keeper) device, which will enable periodic, routine, low-cost breast cancer exams for women.
Today breast cancer is the second leading cause of death in women but early-stage breast cancer frequently has no symptoms. The MyBK easily and comfortably stimulates and extracts a small amount of nipple aspirate fluid (NAF) from the mammary ducts, where a majority of breast cancers originate. This life saving, cutting-edge test can detect malignancy before tumour formation, and provide ultimate diagnostics in a stage that doctors can cure.
- ENDOCARBON-spine (Penza State University, Russia)
The ENDOCARBON-spine company designs and manufactures prosthetic intervertebral disks for the spinal surgery based on carbon materials. The use of the prostheses made by the company significantly reduces the duration of the surgical procedure, the period of postoperative recovery of the patient, and ensures the long–term performance of the prostheses.
- iletken Technologies(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY / Koc University, Turkey)
iletken builds recommendation technology for online businesses to help online retailers increase their sales by delivering a personalised shopping experience and relevant product recommendations.
Its e-commerce product is a plug-and-play Software as a Service solution that enables online retailers to deliver relevant and personalised product recommendations on their site and via e-mail. The service automatically learns from on-site behaviour such as product views, search, keywords and purchases as well as personal data and friends on Facebook to instantly provide powerful recommendations.
- iPi MoCap(Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia)
The iPi Desktop Motion Capture software product tracks human motions from multi-camera video and generates 3D skeleton animation for computer game development, filmmaking, advertisement, medicine, sports, and R&D.
iPi Motion Capture technology is portable and can be set up in regular office space within 30 minutes. It is affordable (with a cost of USD 1,000 instead of USD 10 – 100,000) as it runs on a PC with USB webcams and gives 100 times higher productivity than “manual” key framing tools.
- µ-WTE (Erasmus Mundus ME3 Master Program, Europe / Lebanon)
μ-WTE intends to provide an innovative, economical and affordable microscale waste-to-energy (WTE) technology to supply an environmentally-friendly solution to waste disposal and to enhance the energy independence of a major segment of its initial market: hotels and towers in Dubai.
μ-WTE leverages technology transfer to produce packaged, easy-to-install and operate, and in-situ WTE systems to fit the local market demands while cutting their electricity bills and meeting their heating requirements in-house.
- OpenBuildings(University of Arts, Bulgaria)
OpenBuildings is a community-driven and openly editable encyclopaedia of buildings from around the world. This database of historic, contemporary, or conceptual architecture exists on multiple digital platforms; including a web site and mobile applications that enable users to find, learn about, and share nearby buildings of architectural merit.
- SiteChat (Cairo University, Egypt)
SiteChat is a proprietary, educational online chat system that connects students searching for similar information or knowledge. The technology leverages the synergy created by collaborative thinking to augment search results while simultaneously creating archived knowledge repositories for future students to tap.
The system was tested by more than 1,000 students and proved to be beneficial for more than 80% of the users. It increases the student’s productivity dramatically in finding the information online, and improves the collaborative between students over the Internet.
- Solar Skylight (McMaster University, Canada / King Abdul-Aziz University, Saudi Arabia)
Solar Skylight focuses on harnessing the energy of the sun in the best possible way. ‘Siraj’ is its first product and is a unique window structure designed to use the energy of the sun to optimise the interior illumination of buildings, while generating electric power, and enhancing its aesthetic appearance. ‘
Siraj’ has the benefit of daily light modulation to cause consistent interior lighting over the course of the day from dawn through dusk, and accounts for seasonal light modulation to maintain interior comfort, while generating solar electricity. All this can be achieved at 25% reduction in production costs, 40% increase in solar power efficiency, and an industrial standard durability of 20 years.
- Winduction(London Business School / University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
Winduction will commercialise an evolutionary small wind turbine that offers cost-leading wind energy for residential and commercial applications.
Winduction has developed and patented new technology for wind turbines with a focus on the generator subsystem. Winduction’s patented generation system pairs a commercial induction motor with proprietary electronics to optimize generator characteristics to wind speed.