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The Royal Academy of Engineering ERA Foundation Entrepreneurs Award
Applications for the 2013 award is now closed. The winner(s) will be announced in 2013.
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.
Recent Winners
2012
 Dr Margaret Anne Craig
Chief Executive Officer, Clyde Biosciences
BBSRC/RSE Enterprise Fellow, University of Glasgow
Awarded for her research into
new optical instrumentation, bespoke software and
microsystems technologies for evaluating new drugs
validation and testing their toxicity. The
cutting-edge system CellOPTIQ improves the drug
discovery process, which could save companies and
research institutes significant time and cost, as
well as improve the probability of success from R&D
activities.
See the News Release
for more information.
2011
 Dr Sithamparanathan Sabesan and Dr Michael Crisp
University of Cambridge
Recognising them for their
ground breaking radio tagging system, the Real Time
Location System (RTLS) which will allow businesses
such as high street retailers and airlines which use
tagging on high-end goods and passengers' luggage,
to cheaply and effectively monitor the location of
these items to within one metre. Current systems
only allow for around 60 per cent of tagged items to
be detected and are also not able to locate tags
accurately in real time, while the new system could
be 100 per cent accurate.
See the News Release
for more information.
Enquiries
All enquiries should be sent to:
Sylvia Hampartumian
Manager, Awards
The Royal Academy of Engineering
[E-mail
Awards]
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.
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