Winners in the category Commercial
Entrepreneurship
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CERPIS
CERPIS has developed a method for cell
reprogramming in the body that overcomes the ethical and biological
risks of existing procedures. We have reprogrammed adult human cells
into nerves, identifying the specific molecules that trigger this process.
Our immediate goal is treatment of the cornea of the eye for a disease
that increases risk of trauma, the inability to form tears, dry eye
and eye inflammation.
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Physio
A device for aiding prevention exercises
and rehabilitation.
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Clean Green NZ
Our idea is to develop a business for
the distribution, marketing and export of a dried version of the New
Zealand Greenshell Mussel, initially targeting the China middle class
and eventually expanding into India.
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Vitamo
Vitamo interactive develop smart content
management systems, that display content, depending on location, and
type of person that is viewing. Vitamo specialise in visually appealing
surveying, and product selecting solutions for touch-screen and web
applications. Vitamo systems have analytic functions that allow administrators
to observe customer behaviour, and iterate campaigns to optimise sales.
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Wakemon
The venture aims to construct a portable
drowsiness monitor that will prevent drivers, airline pilots and operators
of heavy machinery from falling asleep on the job.
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Red Lights
Red light running is a real problem.
Between 2002 and 2007, 689 red-light crashes were recorded across Auckland
City, including 220 in the CBD, and at the intersection of Victoria
and Nelson streets on 2 January 2008, 418 vehicles ran red lights within
a 24-hour period. The proposed project is to build a smaller and cheaper
red light camera, which can be deployed more easily.
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Better Learning
A company that is aimed to design,
manufacture, sell and extend an innovative educational tool called Play
and Learn for the Nintendo Wii console, which will teach basics to young
children in a fun and effective way. Play and Learn consists of an advanced
gesture recognition algorithm that will help kids learn alphabets, numbers,
words, spellings and form sentences using unconventional methods.
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GTR Design solutions
The persistent threat of global oil
reserve depletion and the increased awareness for dire environmental
impacts of rapid oil consumption has led to a great demand for a alternative
fuel vehicle conversion technology that is economical, readily accessible
and can utilize a cheaper, renewable eco-friendly fuels, such as compressed
natural gas (CNG) and biogas. GTR Design Solutions is currently developing
a retrofit system for dual fuel operation of light duty diesel vehicles.
The system is designed to co-ordinate with the diesel ECU to precisely
control both diesel injection and gas injection to maintain optimal
engine performance. The system has been designed to be easily fitted
to the proposed vehicle and require no modification to the engine.
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Surface Modification
A novel technique has been developed at the University of Auckland.
This technique can prepare metal matrix coatings with nano-sized oxide
particles, providing very high hardness and excellent wear resistance
on metals for applications such as pistons and cylinders in car engines.
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Environ Power
EnviroPower was founded base on the sustainable energy concept which has evolved rapidly in recent years. The venture has inherited the ideology of making the most of our environment while at the same time keeping it as vibrant and as green as how it was handed down to us from the previous generations. Our venture has two basic functions; 1) selling of windmill related system intellectual properties. 2) Distribute renewable energy packages to reduce electricity cost for public. The idea that this venture has produced is only the beginning of the journey, through development, we hope we would be capable to incorporate other related technology from every different field to provide people with a one hundred percent self-sustainable energy source. Through this ideology we hope the seed of environmental awareness will spread to every occupants of this planet through the products we sell and through the technology and services we provide.
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| Winners in the category Social Entrepreneurship |
Architecture for Humanity
This online networking website will
enable students from all over New Zealand to connect and link with students
at Tertiary Institutes. The initial goal of this idea is to provide
a networking opportunity for students and employers. We aim to achieve
this through a web-based interface that will enable high school students
to asks questions and get guidance from tertiary students.
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Better Giving
The internet innovated everything,
from financial markets to music, so why shouldn't it innovate charity
work? BetterGiving brings givers and charitable organizations together,
and provides efficiency to giving. Under BetterGiving's system, normal
individuals - not just millionaires - can become collective philanthropists
and support what they believe in.
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Food Price Tracker
The product is a website that tracks
the prices of normally purchased foods and uses decreases in price along
with recipes and meal advise to encourage healthy foods are consumed
during difficult financial times.
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Gone Native
Gone Native is an application for the
Apple iPod which weaves together images and sounds from New Zealand
native forests with traditional Maori knowledge to present a “guide
to New Zealand’s forests through Maori eyes”. With over 2 million
international visitors per year primarily visiting New Zealand to experience
our natural environments and gain a taste of Maori culture the Gone
Native application has potential to enrich these visitors experiences
while also allowing Kiwi`s to (re)discover our natural heritage.
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Blind Vision
BlindVision is a company that endeavours
to help vision impaired people perceive and navigate in a sightless
world. The first product for BlindVision is a head unit, which uses
sensor technology to understand the world around the participant. This
information is portrayed to the user as sound information, so that the
person can now “hear” objects that do not usually make noise.
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Green
Loos
Green Loos: A business that designs
and hires out eco-friendly portable composting toilet cubicles. By applying
basic composting principles the waste is recycled into a valuable end
product. This saves the customer money, and gives back to the environment.
By not consuming chemicals this process is completely self reliant,
and sustainable indefinitely.
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FilchimPure
FilchimPure is a new state of the art
invention that aims to reduce smog levels within New Zealand by filtering
the pollutants released out of chimneys. This innovation is aimed at
reducing the carbon footprint of households around New Zealand, thereby
upholding the clean and green image of the country and also reducing
the risk of respiratory illnesses that are caused by these toxic gases.
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Gaitworld
Interactive 3D visualisation of medical
data has been beneficial in medical education and training, in particular
for teaching anatomy and physiology. However, modeling the musculoskeletal
system in motion is computationally very complex. Hence, virtual reality
applications have not yet been introduced into gait courses. A good
understanding of gait is required in many disciplines including orthopedics,
physiotherapy and bioengineering. In the scope of my PhD, I have developed
a computer model of the lower limbs during walking, which provides unique
insights into muscle deformations during normal and pathological gait.
My idea is to develop an online resource for gait courses, called www.gaitworld.com,
which showcases musculoskeletal models in motion. A web-based, interactive
interface, which dynamically displays the musculoskeletal system through
advanced 3D visualisation techniques, would significantly help students
in the learning process, and could make a world wide contribution to
the demanding task of teaching gait.
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Seni-jobs
Seni-jobs is a non-profits organisation
which offers job placement to mature citizens. It consists of a career
website entirely dedicated to mature people. Today, many people of retirement
age are willing to carry on working in a full or part time capacity.
Seni-jobs is there to help this generation of New Zealanders easily
and quickly find what they are looking for and to help fighting against
the social isolation which threatens them.
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2needs
2Needs is an advanced Social Network
and Marketplace to connect NGOs. Operating in diverse regions of the
world, often with limited financial resources, NGOs must manage their
tangible and intangible goods wisely. 2Needs shortens supply chains
for specialized goods and maximizes the value of unused or underutilized
resources.
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| Winner of the
Chiasma iVolve Award for best Biotechnology Idea |
CERPIS
Also a winner in the category
commercial entrepreneurship. Please see info above
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| Winner of the Faculty Price for
best Engineering Idea |
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Physio
Also a winner in the categoryr commercial
entrepreneurship. Please see info above
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| Winner of the Department Prize for
best Computer Science Idea |
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| Winner of the Department Prize for
best Property Idea |
Fresh Focus
FreshFocus will provide to its residential
customers the ability to purchase fresh fruit and vegetables at cost
and to its commercial customers the ability to add additional value
to the subject property through increased alternative revenue. FreshFocus
will source underutilized real estate and farm fruit and vegetables
which can then be sold to its customers or the community at large.
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