Commercialisation
Where the intellectual property arising from a current research project is developed for a commercial application.
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Assessment of Landslides using Acoustic Real-time Monitoring Systems (ALARMS)
Winner
Annually, landslides result in thousands of deaths world-wide and many thousands of survivors being made homeless. The havoc they wreak on basic services such as water supply and transport costs billions of pounds to repair...
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Dual Flex Footwear
Highly commended
Imagine a shoe engineered to perform like a Formula 1 car, designed to optimise your acceleration to top speed. The shoe sole properties adapt to the speed of locomotion, low stiffness at slower speeds and higher stiffness as you run faster...
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Flexible solar cells with integrated supercapacitor
Highly commended
Solar power has the potential to become the dominant energy source this century but maintaining a constant energy supply presents a key challenge. As night falls, energy generated from sunlight must be stored in adequate supply...
