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Taani Venture Cup võitjad!
Taani ettevõtluskonkurss Venture Cup on valinud oma selleaastased võitajad. Peaaegu 700 osalejat moodustas 269 meeskonda, kes esitasid konkursile ideesid. Kokku valiti võitjad ning publiku lemmikud 5 kategoorias. Iga kategooria võitja sai 25 000 Taani krooni.
Loe edasi kategooriate võitjate ideesid inglise keeles:
Cleantech
Blue Power Technologies (DTU/CBS) - optimizing wave technology
Cleantech was the buzzword of 2010 and riding this wave of attention, Keld Lundgaard and Jonathan Højberg, DTU, started developing a Polypower wave technology, a power take-off system aimed for ocean wave energy. The power take-off system is able to convert mechanical energy stored in the ocean waves into electricity.
On of the aspects which the jury liked about Blue Power Technology was that the core of the team is "engineers thinking like entrepreneurs" namely Keld and Jonathan, both DTU nanotech students, who apart from Venture Cup also are active in entrepreneurship activities with DTU Stardust. Teaming up with Bjørn Lund-Nielsen from CBS to couple their technical capabilities with business savvy, Blue Power Technologies have created a sound basis for commercializing their product. Currently, Keld and Jonathan have mobilized no less than 12 of their fellow students in developing and testing the technology and are looking to integrate the development of their product in DTU classes.
Software
FutureCad (AU) - digitalizing construction information
FutureCad is a digital software solution providing visual overview of building information. Despite his young age, the man behind the idea Frank Nørgaard, already has solid knowledge of high-tech projection technology and the construction industry. While studying to become a construction engineer, Frank worked on consultancy projects at The Institute of Technology together with Asbjørn Levring, who is now his partner, and seeing that the information on building and construction was impossible to overview, the idea for FutureCad was born. A couple of years later, Frank is now studying to become a business development engineer at AU-HIH and the team is working on a beta version of FutureCad and are planning to be able to offer the beta to selected municipalities by mid 2010 and hereafter to private companies. On January 27th FutureCard was awarded the 1st prize in Venture Cup Software Final and won 25,000 for the project.
Services
Computerfriend (AAU & Erhvervsakademi Sydvest) - friend to friend online computer service
Students from AAU entered their business idea Computerfriend.dk into Venture Cup Services, and won the first prize of 25.000. Their concept is a website which facilitates IT support among ordinary people and their IT savvy friends.
Thomas Wiborg Steen and Torben Christensen from AAU in Esbjerg and team mates Ulrik Blom and Morten Toft Holm from Erhvervsakademi Sydvest are good at IT. Therefore they are often contacted by frustrated friends and family in need of IT assistance. That is the basis of the idea behind Computerfriend, a platform which allows IT savvy people to provide computer support for their friends from home while getting paid. The team has already launched a beta of computerfriend.dk, and is now working on their strategy and getting investors to launch the final version.
Jury member, Carsten Collin from Ernst & Young mentions "it is a simple but innovative way of offering a new service in a time where social media is growing. The concept utilises the internet with a new twist and it can be implemented immediately."
With entrepreneurship becoming increasingly important for organisations and cities alike, both mayor of Roskilde, Poul Lindor Nielsen and chairman of RUC, Christian S. Nissen, showed up to congratulate the nominated teams and show their support and encouragement for new ideas.
Applied Technology
Super Light Structures (CBS/DTU) - weight reducing technology for load bearing building structures
With a team made up from a DTU scientist and three CBS students, and a technology that had already received interested from venture capitalists, Super Light Structures was always going to be a strong contender in Venture Cup. And they were.
More than 20 years ago DTU scientist Kristian Hertz started working an this construction technology, which opens up for constructing load bearing building structures with cost and energy savings of up to 50%. In 2009 his son Peter started the process of commercializing the invention. In the process Peter teamed up with Alexander Wulff and Mads Løntoft, both studying International Business at CBS. Peter, Alexander and Mads are now working full time on Super Light Structures, which already has obtained proof-of-concept and a patent.
Life Science and Medtech
MalariTect (AU/ASB) - Technology which can diagnose immunity towards malaria medicin
According to WHO half of the world's population live in areas where malaria may occur. Immunity towards malaria medicine is a big and growing problem, which makes it difficult for doctors to determine which medicine to prescribe.
At the final of Venture Cup Life Science & Medtech held at the new biotech park in Copenhagen, COBIS, students from Århus won 25.000kr for their idea MalariTect, a new technology which may be able to reduce the costs and time spent in determining immunity towards malaria medicine.
Jury member Stephan Christgau from Novo Seeds says about that "MalariTect has developed a new technology which makes it possible to diagnose immunity towards malaria medicine, but in principle the technology can be used in other genetic diagnosis"
The team beind the idea has multidisciplinary skills; Anders Pedersen and Christian Jølck from ASB are commercially trained while Jakob Pedersen, David Tordrup and Jakob Virenfeldt from Aarhus Universitet are working with molecular biologi and medicine. In the opening speech at the final Martin E. Vigild, dean from DTU, commented on the importance of multidisciplinary skills in the succesful commercialisation of university research.
