UCL Enterprise Awards 2013 - Audio UCL

Pioneering efforts at KT champion and chair of the SLASH board to bring entrepreneurial spirit to the arts and humanities, through publishing (Norvik Press), capitalisation on new media (inc boot camps on apps), intercultural communication CPD and drawing links with PE activity.

Professor Zangeneh’s research on computational methods to improve the performance of rotating machinery has fostered a long-term research collaboration with the Ebara Corporation of Japan that has resulted in over £1.2 million of research income for UCL and supported 6 post-doc researchers. Importantly the collaboration led to the development of the innovative inverse method of turbo-machinery design, with the IP providing the foundations for the establishment of UCL spinout company, Advanced Design Technology. In 2012, the turnover of ADT exceeded £1million for the first time and with a multinational customer base, the company is a global leader in turbo-machinery design software.

As part of his research into early diagnosis in Alzheimer's disease, Professor Nick Fox has developed innovative image-analysis methods. Recognizing the powerful potential of his techniques to monitor progression in therapeutic trials, he actively engaged with industry and his technique was adopted by dozens of commercial multi-centre trials, becoming the “industry-standard” for atrophy progression. Nick Fox established an internationally-renowned image analysis trials team at UCL which has brought major contracts to the UK and UCL (income exceeding £5m over last 5 years), including the analysis for the largest study of immunotherapy in Alzheimer’s disease (~8000 brain scans). He was also pivotal to the award of the Leonard Wolfson Experimental Neurology Centre at UCL, which is a major attraction to industry.

(Karoline Gross, MSc Technology Entrepreneurship)

Smartzer is an iPad and web application enabling interactivity in video content. It addresses the needs of broadcasters and studios who are having to come up with innovative ways to make their content increasingly relevant and engaging to consumers. Smartzer works through an overlay that presents the content metadata, upon touching the screen. Products in the frame can be purchased, with home delivery.

(Ahmad Bakhiet: MSc Technology Entrepreneurship, Kishan Gupta: UCL MSc Information Security 2010-11)

“Upload once, sell everywhere”. SellPlex is disrupting the eCommerce industry by providing sellers with the ability to load on multiple platforms (eBay, Amazon, Gumtree, Facebook Marketplace etc.) simultaneously and with minimal effort. Sellers will no longer have to waste time uploading items to individual platforms manually – SellPlex automates the entire process and facilitates inventory and inbox management.

(Teófilo de la Cerda: MSc Technology Entrepreneurship, Joshua Asar, MSc Technology Entrepreneurship )

CurrencyBird is a peer-to-peer currency exchange platform to alleviate the process of international capital transactions. CurrencyBird matches two individuals from different countries to exchange via local CurrencyBird accounts to skip the international exchange fees, therefore CurrencyBird can offer attractively low fees.