Archive

Tue, 17/04/2012
Innovating Zealand

In the region of Zealand in Eastern Denmark, two ambitious projects have recently been initiated to boost business innovation and knowledge exchange among local companies and knowledge institutions.

Under the management of CAT Science Park in Roskilde, the CAT-Link project has been initiated to enable and catalyze international networking and funding around regional clusters, as defined in the regional business development plan. CAT-Link, itself funded by the Zealand Region as well as by the EU, will employ a wide range of tools to fulfill this purpose, including structured funding intelligence, training, analysis of current innovation levels, etc. CAT-Link will draw on Innovayt’s assistance throughout the project, which runs until mid-2014.

Similarly, at the initiative of the Zealand Denmark office in Brussels, an iFacilitator project covering all of Zealand Region has been started in early 2012. The purpose of the project is to mobilise companies from Zealand to participate in EU funding programs for research and innovation. The method applied is a structured effort for the screening, selection, and targeting of companies and their subsequent match with EU funding opportunities. The iFacilitator, implemented in Zealand by regional stakeholders and Innovayt in collaboration, is an empirically proven formula which has been applied successfully in a number of other regions. The project acronym is TIPS, which is a Danish abbreviation for "Attracting Innovative Projects to Zealand”.

Together, the two new projects imply a focused and coordinated effort to engage companies and institutions from Zealand in R&D collaboration with Danish and European partners, with the aim of creating further growth and jobs in the region.

You can find out more about CAT-Link and Zealand Denmark here.
Mon, 12/03/2012
Innovayt helps IDEX ASA with Successful Grant Application

Innovayt has assisted the listed Norwegian company IDEX ASA and its French partner UNIT to secure a Eurostars grant for developing a more secure smart card tailored for use in contactless payments through NFC technology. The project received a very favourable evaluation; the proposal was ranked as number one of all Norwegian proposals and ranked as number five in Europe.

Ralph W. Bernstein, CEO of IDEX, is very pleased and concludes, "This is a strong and firm recognition of the work IDEX has carried out in its development of the SmartFinger technology, and it confirms that the technology will contribute to solve the problems related to card fraud and ID theft. The technology risk is inherent in the innovative phase, and is one of the criteria for the support grant".

The planned project period is two years and total cost amounts to more than DKK 11 million, shared equally between the partners. The approved support grant will cover about half the cost.

You can read more about IDEX and the project here or contact Kenneth Junge Hermansen.  
Mon, 06/02/2012
Innovayt assists successful FP7 proposal

Innovayt helped a consortium of 3 SMEs (PAJ Systemteknik, CMS Elektronic, Castle Group) and 3 research partners (Danish Fundamental Metrology, Dutch Metrology Institute, University of Minho) to obtain funding for the DOCA project through an application to the EU’s 7th Framework Programme.

The DOCA (Detection of Oil in Compressed Air) project aims to develop an online sensor that will detect oil contaminants in all its forms (liquid, aerosol and vapor) with an extremely high sensitivity in accordance with ISO-8573 Class 1 standards. The sensor system will benefit a large category of industries that require high purity compressed air including, hospitals, pharmaceutical, automotive, chemical, textiles, electronics, clean rooms and other related industries. The project aims to deliver a marketable sensor system in 2 years.

For further information about the DOCA project, contact Aneesh Zutshi
Wed, 25/01/2012
Innovayt assists successful proposal for FP7 call “Ocean of Tomorrow”

During the spring of 2011, Innovayt was contracted by and collaborated with a consortium of leading European industrial and academic from 5 different countries within the area of Renewable Offshore Energy. The collaboration concerned the development and preparation of a proposal for the EU’s 7th Framework Programme for Research called H2OCEAN. The project has been favorably evaluated by independent experts, will receive a grant of approximately €4,5 million and had its kick-off meeting last week.

The H2OCEAN project targets rational exploitation of oceans space and resources. The consortium aims at developing an innovative design for an economically and environmentally sustainable multi-use open-sea platform. The H2OCEAN platform will harvest wind and wave power, using part of the energy on-site for multiple applications – including a multi-trophic aquaculture farm and convert on-site the excess energy into hydrogen that can be stored and shipped to shore as green energy carrier. The H2OCEAN concept lies in the novel approach of integration of different activities into a shared multi-use platform and the transmission of offshore-generated renewable electrical energy through hydrogen. This conceptual model avoids the grid imbalance problem inherent to current offshore renewable energy systems and eliminates the need for cost-prohibitive cable transmission systems.

The project is coordinated by AWS Truepower (Barcelona). You can find more information on the project here or contact Raquel Sousa.
Mon, 16/01/2012
Better hospital treatment with new piezo Motor

A Danish consortium led by Noliac A/S has the ambition to develop the first high performance, non-magnetic motor built on piezo technology. Innovayt assisted the consortium with the preparation of the proposal that received a grant of approximately 10 million DKK from the Danish Advanced Technology Foundation.

The consortium  – Noliac A/S, DTU Mechanical Engineering and Siemens Clinical Products Division – and the PAD motor project aim to develop competitive engines to be used in MRI  and CT  equipment for treatment tables at hospitals as well as in medical infusion pumps. In both application areas, there is a clear need to introduce high performance motors, which reliably and without interference can operate in highly magnetic fields. The project will be implemented in 2012.

You can find more information on PAD Motor Project here
Thu, 05/01/2012
Funding for improved working conditions in the Danish Fur Industry

Innovayt has helped the Danish company Pamutec A/S with the preparation of the  “Auto Care” project proposal,  which was submitted to The Danish Prevention Fund and subsequently approved for funding.

The Auto Care project involves two Danish partners and aims at developing a fully automated process for the handling of mink pelts. The new system will eliminate the use of sawdust and thereby remove a source of major inconvenience to employees working with mink pelts. Simultaneously, the automated process will eliminate monotonous and repeated work associated with current manual methods. The main developments will be new robotics and the development of a closed cleaning process.  

For further information, contact Kenneth Junge Hermansen