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The Royal Academy of Engineering ERA Foundation Entrepreneurs Award
The call for 2011 applications is now open. Closing date Monday 11 October 2010.
This award of £40,000 from
The Royal Academy of Engineering has been made
possible by the generous support of the ERA
Foundation. A prize fund has been established to
identify entrepreneurial researchers, working in UK
universities, in the field of electro-technology,
who are at an early stage in their career. The award
will be presented to an individual or team
demonstrating considerable entrepreneurial promise
and the potential to benefit the UK’s future
prosperity.
The winning entry will receive a prize of £10,000
along with a further £30,000 to invest in the
development of the winning idea. The winner(s) will
be assigned an appropriate member of the judging
panel as a mentor for a period of two years. In
addition to the first award, two additional cash
prizes of £2,000 will be presented to runners-up. All
Prize winners and their home institutions receive
significant publicity for this event endorsed by The
Royal Academy of Engineering.
 The Royal Academy of Engineering ERA Foundation Entrepreneurs Award 2011 leaflet (120KB)
Recipient
2010
 Dr Alexandre Pechev
Lecturer, University of Surrey
Recognising him for his
submission “From spacecraft control to fast computer
animation in games’ which is a new, faster way of
animating characters in computer games. His company
IKinema is commercialising the technology and its
ambition is bring movie-like realism to all computer
games. See the News Release for more information..
2009
 Dr David Batterbee
Research Associate at the University of Sheffield and Managing Director of MR Shox Ltd
In recognition for David
Batterbee's work on “MR Shox” (MagnetoRheological
Shock absorbers) which commercialises semi-active
suspension products by utilising magnetorheological
fluids. MR Shox began business with the release of a
revolutionary electronic absorber for rear
suspension mountain bikes. See the News Release for more information.
2008
 EMdot
Queen Mary University
EMdot, for their patented
drop-on demand dispensing technology. The technology
allows the controlled production of extremely small
liquid droplets which is important in a number of
biomedical applications such as the engineering of
replacement cartilage, soft tissue or bone and the
production of microarray chips for drug development
or disease diagnosis. See the News Release for more information.
2007
 Mario Iobbi
Imperial College London
Mario is the founder of
Dynamic Therapeutics a company which has developed a
novel respiratory therapeutic device to help
patients with respiratory problems. See the News Release for more information.
Enquiries
All enquiries should be sent to:
Sylvia Hampartumian
Assistant Manager, Awards
The Royal Academy of Engineering
[E-mail
Sylvia]
The strategic vision of The
ERA Foundation is to contribute to the economic
vitality of the UK by supporting activities that
will help bridge the gap between research and
exploitation in the broad field of electrotechnology.
More information about
The
ERA Foundation.
The ERA Foundation also
supports the Academy’s annual International Lecture
and Dinner.
Details of past lectures.
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