Successful Transfer Business
Security
Counterfeit-Protected Presentation of Documents on the Internet
[www.security2image.de]
Innovator: Prof. Bernhard Wirnitzer, Mannheim University of Applied Sciences
This technology allows Word documents to be protected against falsification and verified worldwide using a standard flatbed scanner. The entire document contents are encrypted and stored in a printed data bar – the S2i seal.
Transfer success:
Licensing and distribution via the Austrian subsidiary of TRODAT, the world’s premier manufacturer of stamp products.
S2I – Security 2 Image [www.security2image.de]
Innovators: Prof. Bernhard Wirnitzer, Slavi Bonev, Mannheim University of Applied Sciences
Barcode technology provides protection against counterfeit products.
Transfer success:
Successful startup of Epyxs, run by Dr. Mario T. Cameron. The innovators were introduced to the sponsors at the Forum. Winner of enable2start, Financial Times Germany's start-up competition, and "Place of ideas" in the "Germany – Land of ideas" initiative 2008.
Visual Computing & Simulation
Liquid Browsing [www.iverse.org]
Innovator: Carsten Waldeck, ZGDV (Computer Graphics Center), Darmstadt
Liquid browsing is a new form of interaction for browsing high information densities. It is especially suited for small screens and large quantities of information. Liquid browsing supports multidimensional comparisons and makes it possible to perceive between three and seven dimensions simultaneously.
Transfer success:
Licensing via Apple and the Mainz Bibliographical Institute. Driven by this innovative idea, Carsten Waldeck has since launched two companies – liquiverse GmbH & Co. KG and iverse – and was elected Germany's most innovative small or medium-sized enterprise in 2007.
eVision / eHearing [www.idmt.fraunhofer.de]
Innovator: Dr. Frank Klefenz, Fraunhofer IDMT
eVision and eHearing simulate the human audiovisual senses with the help of a computer model and hardware. They are based on the latest insights in computer neurosciences.
Transfer success:
Investment meetings with Triangle Ventures and Linguatec Language Technologies.
Visibly Better Decisions [www.lumo.de]
Innovator: Marc Herling, Lumo Graphics
Lumo Graphics enables products to be configured with 3D visualisations on the basis of its LumoVis software.
Transfer success:
Joint research project with Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences (Prof. Nestler).
Haptical Interface Communication System for Motor Car Cockpits
[www.hs-karlsruhe.de]
Innovator: Prof. Britta Nestler, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
Hardware and software components comprised of different haptic actuators in combination with designer software and a driving simulator.
Transfer success:
Joint research project, submission of a joint proposal with various industrial partners.
eHealth
Suitsearch [www.averbis.de]
Innovator: Dr. Phillip Daumke, University Medical Center Freiburg / Averbis GmbH
Searching for electronic information is one of the elementary cultural techniques of modern societies. A multiple award-winning, ready-for-market method that searches intelligently in multilingual document archives has been developed specifically for this purpose. In contrast to traditional search engines, it systematically integrates linguistic knowledge.
Transfer success:
Contacts with IBM and SAP preceding the launch of Averbis GmbH in 2007.
MedioVis [http://hci.uni-konstanz.de]
Innovator: Prof. Harald Reiterer, University of Konstanz
MedioVis makes searching and exploration in databases more efficient and effective. The software visualises results and makes them intuitively understandable. MedioVis is also especially suitable for small mobile devices.
Transfer success:
Joint research project with SAP as well as contacts with several investors. Presentation of the idea in the USA.
AiDKlinik [www.aidklinik.de]
Innovator: Prof. Dr. Walter E. Haefeli, University Medical Center Heidelberg
Web based system unique in Germany that provides information about medication and facilitates comprehensive quality assurance. It can be customised to individual locations (e.g. hospitals), users (e.g. consultant physicians) or local problems (e.g. specific symptoms). It can be integrated and adapted without any technical know-how and used by all members of the medical professions without special training.
Transfer success:
Distribution via Dosing GmbH, established in 2006; in use in several hospitals.
Insight Image Technology [www.replicardio.de]
Innovators: Hannes Kenngott, Prof. Hans-Peter Meinzer, DKFZ (German Cancer Research Centre), Heidelberg
3D segmentation of lesions, computer aided operation planning in liver surgery, volumetric and functional cardiac analyses, diagnostic techniques, therapy planning and monitoring of cancerous affections of the lung.
Transfer success:
Negotiations with an investor.
Mobile Solutions
Interactive Product Packaging with Camera Phones [www.vs.inf.ethz.ch]
Innovator: Prof. Friedemann Mattern, ETH Zürich
Camera phones are used to realise augmented reality games on product packaging, flyers, magazines, etc. The packaging serves as background for a virtual game, for example a penalty shootout on a cornflakes packet.
Transfer success:
Joint research project with Deutsche Telekom AG.
Character Pump [www.conante.com]
Innovator: Dr. Stefan Rapp, CONANTE, Tübingen
Character Pump allows text to be entered on mobile terminals without a keyboard. It combines haptics and intelligent voice technologies, and is also suitable for very small mobile phones.
Transfer success:
Joint research project with Nokia.
Mobile Assistant for Interactive Field Service [www.vs.inf.ethz.ch]
Innovator: Dr. Michael Rohs, Deutsche Telekom AG
This handy assistant allows camera phones to interact with technical equipment, objects and buildings. Amongst other things, it can be used to document work sequences, order spare parts or store digital comments about an object.
Transfer success:
Joint research project with ETH Zürich.
Tsunami Alarm System [www.tsunami-alarm-system.com]
Innovator: Prof. Wolfram Reiners, Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences
The Tsunami Alarm System receives earthquake and tsunami warning information from a multiplicity of seismic measuring stations and tsunami warning stations in different countries all over the world. Any tsunami warning results in an alarm being sent to the user's mobile telephone as soon as possible.
Transfer success:
Successful startup, Integrata Foundation prize for the humane usage of information technology, licensing via Thomas Cook and travel insurer ELVIA at the end of 2007.
Location Based Services
Quiro – Mobile Location Based Community [www.myqiro.de]
Innovator: Christian Wolf, Deutsche Telekom AG
Free location based service for users of mobile phones. Quiro shows the user's current position on a map and displays a list of restaurants, automatic teller machines or cinemas in the vicinity as well as assorted supplementary information (e.g. the films showing at each cinema). It can also point on the map to any of the user's friends who happen to be in the area.
Transfer success:
Quiro has already entered the market successfully; investor: High Tech Gründerfonds (startup fund).
Mobile City Information Portal [www.heidelberg-mobil.de]
Innovator: Dr. Matthias Jöst, EML, Heidelberg Mobil GmbH
Heidelberg mobil is a city information system that offers mobile users a wide range of location based services, such as multimedia information about tourist attractions, shops or restaurants in the neighbourhood as well as navigation aids.
Transfer success:
The mobile city information portal is meanwhile marketed by Heidelberg mobil GmbH, a company launched jointly with WLAN provider MEG.
Local Search – Location Based Services [www.yellowmap.de]
Innovator: Dr. Bernhard Kölmel, CAS Software Systeme AG, Karlsruhe
Specialist information is increasingly also available today in electronic form. As a result of this development, the information spectrum has broadened from pure text and numeric data to electronically retrievable software packages, pictures and graphics, video and audio sequences, and interactive and multimedia modes of knowledge presentation. Primary information in the form of electronic full texts is becoming more and more important. Communication of this information is context based.
Transfer success:
Joint research project with the University of Darmstadt.
