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ACES winner powers long-range electric cars to market
EVO Electric has applied novel technology to develop motors that combine high power with low weight, promising to increase the efficiency and appeal of electric cars and reduce CO2 emissions from hybrid petrol/electric cars
Changing the face of science
ACES winner Mendeley is revolutionising the way research is done – using cloud computing to create the largest crowd-sourced library in the world. Its software lets academics organise and annotate journal articles, and share and discuss their work with researchers around the globe
Yearbook of the 2011 Academic Enterprise Awards
This ACES 2011 yearbook celebrates the achievements of Europe's academic entrepreneurs, and charts Europe's progress in building a new culture of innovation on campus.
2012 Entrepreneurial start-ups from across Europe recognised in awards ceremony
Science|Business and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) awarded start-up entrepreneurs at a joint ACES and EIT Awards ceremony in Brussels on 21 February 2011. Start-ups from the UK and Germany lead the list of winners, which also includes Spanish and Hungarian companies.
Winners of the 2012 Academic Enterprise Awards (ACES)
Victor Henning, founder of Mendeley, devised a desktop tool to extract information from research papers automatically and transform it into a structured database. The database syncs to a web account, creating the first global research collaboration platform and database. Highlighting the potential of cloud computing to drive new business models, Mendeley's database contains 50 million unique documents, created through crowd sourcing by a global user base of 1.3 million researchers.
Quentin Pankhurst, founder of Endomagnetics Ltd, created an ultrasentitive hand-held probe for identifying the "sentinal" lymph node biopsies in breast cancer patients using advanced magnetic sensing technology and nanotechnology. The probe was developed as a most cost-efficient solution to the existing use of radioisotopes, a more expensive diagnostic approach not available to all patients.
Michael Lampérth launched EVO Electric around breakthroughs in electric car technologies. Lampérth designed and integrated high-torque electric motors and generators based on axial flux technology, providing benefits in cost, efficiency, torque and power density. EVO Electric's technologies are aimed at hybrid and electric vehicle drive systems, wind power generators and mobile power systems. EVO Electric are an associate member of the EIT's Climate-KIC.
Tamas Haidegger, Clariton CEO, developed a hand hygiene system called "Hand-in-Scan" to help fight against healthcare associated infections which kill 100,000 in the US annually. The scan system uses ultraviolet light and digital imaging to highlight disinfected versus unclean areas after a regular hand washing and provides an overall quality score. The system provides real-time objective feedback to the user and aims to teaches medical personnel how to wash their hands more effectively to reduce hospital-linked infections.
Highlights of ACES 2012
