Briefs: Record year for Cambridge Enterprise; big new customers for Brady, Antenova
Cambridge Enterprise Ltd, the commercialisation arm of the University of Cambridge, said it had a record-breaking year to 31st July 2008, both for the number of deals completed and for income, which exceeded £10m from licensing, consultancy and equity realisations.
It said over £8m represents distributions to departments and academics whose ideas and expertise are the basis of successful products. The remainder was reinvested into patents, proof of concept, pre-seed opportunities and to support services to University academics, research council and other third stream mandates.
The company has released its annual report for 2007/08, which is available on its website.
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Antenova Ltd, the integrated antenna and RF solutions company, said Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications has licensed its patented High Dielectric Antenna (HDA) technology for its series of high performance multi-band handsets.
Antenova's multi-band HDA antennas offer GSM, UMTS, EGSM and CDMA capability all in the same antenna with minimum space requirement. The superior detuning characteristics of HDA technology offers over 50% average terminal radiation efficiency over the cellular bands, making it an ideal solution for high volume platform handset development for the global market, the company said.
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XJTAG, a supplier of IEEE Std. 1149.x boundary scan development systems, has improved the speed of Flash programming of its XJTAG boundary scan system with the introduction of XJFlash.
XJFlash module can achieve close to theoretical programming times for a given flash device; up to 50-fold improvement in flash programming speeds seen in certain flash/FPGA configurations, the company said/
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The rapid response capabilities of Hybrid Laser Tech, a division of Shearline Precision Engineering, have been boosted by a major investment in the latest laser positioning technology. The Cambridgeshire company anticipates that new tooling will halve set-up times and increase throughput by 12%
HLT makes and supplies precision laser cut ceramic substrates to a range of industries including micro-electronics and medical devices. It uses advanced CO2 laser systems to profile, cut and scribe ceramic substrates, metals and other specialised materials, each with their own unique mechanical, electrical, thermal and bio-chemical properties.
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Brady plc, the global provider of trading, risk management and settlement solutions to the metals and commodities industries, said Xstrata Copper, one of the commodity business units within the mining group Xstrata plc, has selected Brady's Aquarius solution to supply the organisation's metal trading business. Xstrata Copper is the world's fourth largest copper producer with mining and processing facilities located in Australia, Chile, Peru, Argentina and Canada.
It is Brady's first sale of Aquarius since Brady acquired the specialist metals trading technology through its acquisition of Comsoft in January 2009.
