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The Royal Academy of Engineering ERA Foundation Entrepreneurs Award
The deadline for applications of the 2012 award has now closed. The winner(s) will be announced early 2012.
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 2012 leaflet (523KB)
Recipient
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.
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.
2006
 Phil Harper
University of Sheffield, Research Assistant
Mr Harper is the founder of Tribosonics Ltd, a company which has developed a unique sensor technology that can monitor and predict the failure of mechanical seals.
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
Sylvia Hampartumian]
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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