2009 Entrants & Winners
This year's finalists are as follows:
Durham
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Irish Ancestral Holidays – Howard Kingston (BA Entrant)
A specialised tour package company targeting people with Irish family roots, and providing them with a premium, personalised holiday experience. It offers the unique selling point of visiting locations where their Irish ancestors were raised. Read More... -
StuRents – Matthew Heap and Michael Rainsford (BA Entrant & CD WINNER)
StuRents.com specialises in student accommodation. Their website offers a platform for landlords/letting agents to advertise their properties offering a prospective tenant the ability to browse through hundreds of properties. StuRents aims to encourage local business assisting local companies to survive the recession. Read More... -
Friends Vs Records – Pip Newby (CD Entrant)
A record label and music consultancy companied aimed at the 16-24 year old market. The company releases records, throws parties, organises gigs and runs a popular blog on the website, as well as providing consultancy to larger companies within the music industry but also to brands aiming to target the youth market. Read More... -
FScan – Robert Pal & David Parker (ST WINNER)
Is focussed on the development of the commercial applications from its luminescent lanthanide chemistry technology platform. There are two particular commercial fields of application, they are, sensor materials and assays as well as medical imaging. Read more... -
Debate & Innovate – Esther Dingley & Dan Colegate (CD RUNNER-UP)
Postgraduate researchers are highly valuable audience and traditionally they have been difficult to reach because of the decentralisation of postgraduate research; further, cross-disciplinary researcher skills have been hard to access. The Innovation Exchange by the Graduate Junction solves these critical resource problems. Read More...
Newcastle
- WhipBikes – Jack Payne & Robert Grisdale (BA)
WhipBikes provides simple self-service bike hire that offers students a quick, convenient way of getting around. The system requires no additional infrastructure and all you need to hire a bike is a mobile phone. Read More... - Touchscape – Cassim Ladha (BA & ST)
A retail based company whose business scope encompasses providing interactive multi-touch surfaces embedded in furniture and customised multi-touch applications to suit. The underlying technology behind the surfaces relies on patents developed by the directors whilst the physical design and furniture form factor is completely customisable in terms of aesthetic and size. Read more... - Culture Parade – Nkechi Adegbie (CD)
A community interest company that aims tor provide a melting pot for communities in the North East of England to share their heritage, arts and crafts, literature, drama, fashion and cuisine with the larger community. Its overall aim is to sustain, develop and celebrate the cultural diversity in the North East Region. Read More... - Get on the Wall – Joseph Steele (CD)
Operates a creative agency with one foot in the underground art world and one foot in the commercial minded creative services with an aim of organising huge public events to promote artists from all areas. Read More...
Northumbria
- Pure Pouches - Donna Hildrew & Gillian Gordon (BA Entrant) Dare to be Different Winner
Pure Pouches aim to solve an interesting but serious problem that all parents of small children could potentially run into. The company provides safe, non plastic, ethically traded, environmentally friendly party products and party gift bags. Their products are suitable for all children regardless of allergy or diet. Read More... - Oak Training - Mark Grant & John Clark (BA)
Oaktrain plans, sells and delivers short training courses for young people to promote social, physical and cognitive development. The programmes combine physical activity and key skills accreditation and support schools by improving league table results. Read More... - Sporting Health - Dr Les Ansley (ST)
With a current lack of Asthma and allergy testing facilities in the UK, www.sportinghealth.co.uk is a research and commercial testing service with a particular expertise in diagnosis and management of exercise-included Asthma (EIA) and airborne allergy. Read More... - Data Exploration - Dr Joe Faith (ST RUNNER-UP)
Data Exploration’s proprietary technology is one of the first of a new breed of visual analysis techniques, using advanced interactive graphical techniques that allow users to eyeball large and complex data from where they can extract the potentially valuable information. Read More...
Sunderland
- Bikehire UK - Chris Bushell (BA RUNNER-UP)
Bike Hire personal Bike Hire UK is a bicycle rental company which enables individuals to hire bikes via their mobile telephone or by the Bike Hire UK website (www.bikehireuk.com) Chris sees this service appealing to a wide range of visitors to the North East. Read More... - Campus Games - Helmut Okike (BA WINNER)
Is wworking with student unions to provide a fully managed computer games service for students, supplying equipment, running tournaments and offering a range of game play options. Thus giving students the incentive to interact with Student unions, especially, international students. Read More... - History Faculty - Kevin Yuill (CD Entrant)
The www.historyfaculty.com is operated by three history PhD’s with the purpose of building bridges between Universities and students studying History at GCSE, AS and A Level by providing free historical podcast lectures published by the University lecturers. Read More...
Teesside
- Nano Agro Chemicals - Andrew & Silvia Dean (BA & ST Entrants)
The crop spray market is ever expanding market in need of a chemical that can protect crops from a wide range of bacterial threats. Nano Agrochemicals is involved developing a non-toxic crop spray which aims to reduce costs and without causing environmental damage. Read More... - Mango Creative Studio - Vinnie Morgan (BA Entrant)
Mango Creative Studio focuses on online booking systems and website application development. Read More... - Design Mob - Olivia Monaghan & Michael Crockett (CD Entrant)
The mission is to create a unique design-enthused enterprise, which supports the North East England’s new and emerging designers, providing them with a platform from which to display and sell their work. It is an online creative company selling and promoting a range of bespoke merchandise from clothes to fashion accessories to ceramics and lifestyle products. Read More... - Wild Edu Ltd - Helen Gamesby (CD Entrant)
Is a 3D web-based learning environment that allows users to learn in fun and engaging ways. Its purpose is to compliment what teachers do in the classroom by engaging children aged 11-19 with their after school studies, by taking social networking to a whole new level. Read More... - HyperSmart - Dr John Dean, Anwar Bashir, Claudio Benghi (ST Entrants)
Aims to provide an accurate, simple to use attendance monitoring system for the educational sector that will automate the monitoring process and will inform other computational systems. Read More...