Edinburgh Innovations has helped staff and students set up award-winning businesses, supporting the University’s position as one of the top-performing enterprise universities in the UK.
Spinout companies
Spinouts are companies started by School staff, where the University holds the intellectual property rights.
- Artilium: mobile phone location services
- Conversatec: Language translation
- DEM Solutions: finite element modelling
- Elektrobit (UK) Ltd: mobile comms
- Intexia: inkjet texturing
- MicroEmissive Displays: TV microdisplays
- NGenTec: novel electrical generators for wind turbines
- Particle Analytics: software and consultancy in preparation, visualisation and analysis of particles and industrial bulk solids
- Predictions Software: semiconductor yield
- Pure LiFi: ubiquitous high speed wireless access using visible light communication
- RicaTek: design of next-generation digital cameras and imaging systems
- SATSIS (now Sensewhere): satellite communications
- Spiral Gateway: low power IC design
- Sofant Technologies: innovative wireless solutions using smart antenna and tunable RF
- VLSI Vision: pioneers in the development of CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) image sensor technology
- Wolfson Microelectronics Ltd (now Cirrus Logic): microelectronics and fabless semiconductor
Secondary spin out companies
- Artemis Intelligent Power: machine control
- Dukosi: custom circuit design
- Edinburgh Designs: wave tanks
- Indigo Vision: video bridges
- Ocean Power Delivery (now called Pelamis Wave Power): wave energy
- Sauer-Danfoss: hydraulics
- TriSent: mobile comms
- Walmsley Electronics: system design
Student start up companies
Start up companies tend to be originated by students, where the student holds the intellectual property rights.
- Eleotech: ultrasound
- Indexed-on: software recovery
- Reactec: smart ski technology
- Renewable Devices: wind turbines
