UCL Enterprise Awards 2011 - Audio

Literary Kitchen wishes to create “a social space for writers to get together and interact”. The space will also cater for beginners and more experienced writers who wish to be professional writers, with classes and support up to publication.

A social enterprise dedicated to providing the best possible care for diabetes patients by offering diabetes education and management programmes.

An online platform which gives film producers, publishers and agents access to the best screenplays, novels and plays from all over the world. Circalit has pioneered a core innovation known as Tracktivity Technology, which reliably finds projects likely to have mass appeal.

TagChats is a new 1 to 1 chatroom service which allows people to share interests and make new friends. It works by using tag matching to pair up 2 strangers with similar interests so that they can talk with each other. It also matches people based on a score which is determined by the votes of their previous chat partners, and is effectively like a “personality rating”. Therefore interesting and friendly people will be matched with similar people and trolls will be matched with other trolls.

Provides a new way of learning: combining multimedia and audio in an innovative and effective way that engages and educates.

Provides a technology based solution that improves the tracking, analysis and security capabilities of government defence and public service providers by enabling administrators to easily identify the number of active mobile phones or devices within the system’s vicinity.

Over the last four years EDF have become a key partner with the UCL Energy Institute. With help from Anna Clark of UCL Business, a strong relationship between EDF Energy in the UK, EDF R&D across Europe, and the UCL Energy Institute has evolved. EDF is chairing the UCL Doctoral Training Centre Advisory Board, is co-funding with EPSRC the People, Energy and Buildings consortium, and is part of two consortia funded by the Energy Technology Institute on distributed energy in the built environment, and on the thermal efficiency of homes. The total project value is approximately £4m.

UCL's partnership with Arius 3D dates back to 2006, with the installation of a state-of-the-art 3D colour laser scanner at UCL and a shared-use agreement. The facility, unique in Europe, maintains its world-leading position through generous hardware and software upgrades from Arius 3D. To date it has generated over £2.5m in research funding proposals and partnerships with many cultural organisations including the British Museum, the Science Museum and English Heritage. In 2009 the agreement was renewed, leading to a new partnership with Irish company IET, to create 3D image libraries and virtual touring exhibitions based on the Petrie Museum collections.

Few have done as much as Dave Chapman to develop enterprise and entrepreneurship at UCL. He spun out his own company then worked in UCL Business supporting other academics to do likewise. He launched the MSc Technology Entrepreneurship, one of the first of its type, and continues to pioneer programmes bringing the likes of Arup, Orange and numerous small businesses into classes. As the interim director of CEMI he sowed the seeds that grew into both the department of Management Science and Innovation and UCL Advances. His students have gone on to form numerous businesses and it is sign of his effect on them that many have come back to help with teaching or engage with student projects.

An inter-university team consisting of members of UCL and the London Business School that has put together a balanced team of technical and business skills to develop a disruptive technology that allows them to screen future potential medicines much more quickly, allowing them to come to market faster.