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Smart Scotland awards
15/10/2003
An automated vaccination system to prevent disease in
fish is one of 17 research and development projects to
receive a share of £850,000 from a special fund.
Enterprise Minister Jim Wallace announced the second
round of winning companies from the 2003 SMART:SCOTLAND
awards scheme.
A further £2.6 million is available to take projects to
pre-production stage.
The SMART awards are designed to help new and existing
businesses with less than 50 employees gain a competitive
edge in the market by funding the development of innovative
and commercially viable products and processes.
Mr Wallace said:
"I am delighted to be able to announce today the latest
round of SMART:SCOTLAND winners. They really do epitomise
what can be achieved in terms of turning ideas into market
leading projects, and include significant technological
advancements in such areas as biotechnology, environmental
technology, electronics and fish vaccination.
"The Executive is committed to helping grow the economy
by investing in the skills of our workforce and getting
ideas and innovations out of our laboratories and into
global markets.
"Today's awards demonstrates the Executive's continuing
commitment to the creation of a pipeline of support to
transform our brightest innovations into successful
business opportunities.
"We are determined to realise our vision of a Scotland
where there is a greater self confidence, an enterprising
spirit and less fear of failure. Today's winners are real
proof of what we can achieve, and I hope that other
Scottish firms will follow their lead."
THE SMART:SCOTLAND 2003 Round 2 winners are:
1.Aqualife Service Ltd, Isle of Skye
Development of an Automated Fish Vaccination and
Grading System
Contact: Gordon Jeffrey 01471 833200
2.Arborescent Ltd, St Andrews
Design and fabrication of Plastic Transistor Based on
Organic Dendrimers
Contact: Michael Holmes 07799 671564
3.Auvation Ltd, Aberdeen
Development of an Antisense Inhibitor of CYP1B1 for
Cancer Treatment
Contact: Colin Telfer 01224 355207
4.Centeo Biosciences Ltd, Glasgow
Development of Thermal Microsystems for Screening and
Optimising Protein Crystallisation Conditions
Contact:Gabrielle Juarez-Martinez 0141 330 5230
5.Design Led, Edinburgh
Development of Photonic Technology for Display
Products
Contact: designled@hotmail.com
6.Ettrick Ltd, Hillington
Development of Enterprise Software Productivity
Groupware for the Application Architect
Contact: Allan McLoughlin / David Stapleton 0141 585
6486
7.KP Technology Ltd, Wick
Development of Intelligent Technology Kelvin Probe
for Materials Analysis
Contact:Iain Baikie 01955 602773
8.ParTrac Ltd, Glasgow
Development of Novel Particle Tracking Technologies
Contact:Peter Wilson 0141 354 8855
9.Protective Research Industries (Scotland) Ltd,
Cumbernauld
Development of an Environmentally Friendly Non-Toxic
Anti-fouling coating
Contact:Mark O'Hanlon 01236 603541
10.Radar World Ltd, Edinburgh
Development of Novel Software to Calculate Subsurface
Landfill for Civil Engineering
Contact:Gordon Stove 0131 558 9177
11.ReacTec Ltd, Edinburgh
Development of an Intelligent Programmable Vibration
Control Unit
Contact: Mark-Paul Buckingham 0131 472 4806
12.Technology Ventures International Ltd, Aberdeen
Design and Testing of an Innovative Low Cost Rotary
Steerable System for Slim Hole Infill Drilling
Contact:Jim Hewson 01224 560663
13.Ultraject Ltd, Edinburgh
Development of a Novel Ultrasonic Fuel Injector
Contact:Jonathan Salmon 0131 440 7320
14.Virtual Well Engineer Ltd, Aberdeen
Development of a Virtual Reality or Immersive
Environment for use by well engineers in the oil and gas
industry
Contact:Babs Oyeneyin 01224 262327
15.VoiceKwik Ltd, Edinburgh
Development of a New and Robust Speaker Dependent
Isolated Word Recogniser
Contact:Mark Cowper 0131 650 7458
16.XstalBio Ltd, Glasgow
Development of a Protoype Flow-Reactor for Continuous
Production of Pharmaceutical Formulation Based on
Protein-Coated Microcrystals
Contact: Marie-Claire Parker 0141 330 3298
17.Ythan Environment Services Ltd, Ellon
Development of a Gelled Fluid Insulating Media for
Deepwater Pipeline Applications
Contact: Patrick Collins 01358 729821
Entries for SMART:SCOTLAND can be submitted by
individuals planning to start a business in Scotland, and
by existing small firms / groups with less than 50
employees.
There are three rounds of judging each year with closing
dates for applications in January, May and September. The
Government meets 75 per cent of the project costs and the
maximum award payable has recently been raised to £350,000.
Projects last between 6 and 18 months.
Winners who successfully complete their projects and
require additional assistance to develop a pre-production
prototype can apply for further funding under the SPUR
scheme. SPUR is a non-competitive scheme and grant is
available at 35 per cent of the eligible project costs,
subject to a maximum grant of £150,000. These projects
should last between six months and three years.