Business case studies

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

Student start up companies

Start up companies tend to be originated by students, where the student holds the intellectual property rights.