Bond University
Griffith University
Monash University
QUT
RMIT University
Swinburne University of Technology
The University of Adelaide
The University of the Sunshine Coast
Victoria University
Australian National University
Di Pietro Engineering Pty Ltd
Di Pietro Engineering Pty Ltd is commercialising its first product, Fibreform, a new and innovative composite material manufacturing machine. Fibreform will manufacture composite material parts for the booming aerospace, automobile, marine and wind turbine markets. Fibreform’s unique technology consolidates the composite part manufacturing process into one simple and automated step, addressing the key problems that plague current manufacturing processes. Together with DPE’s expert services, Fibreform will allow our clients to tap the enormous commercial and green potential of composite materials.
Team Member: Adriano Di Pietro
Bond University
Patient Specific Innovations
Technological improvements, procedural innovation and increased patient willingness to undergo surgery has resulted in a decade of rapid growth in the orthopaedic industry. Total hip and knee replacement surgery was previously only for crippled patients: it is now performed so that moderately affected people can return to a fully active life. The current market sees patients with little tolerance for degeneration or pain and orthopods more likely to indicate surgery as a successful solution. Patient Specific Innovations will combine emerging 3D imaging technologies with significant domain expertise to disrupt existing market forces and deliver process and profitability enhancements to the hip and knee replacement industry.
Team Members: Bede O'Connor and Wade Heggie
Academic Advisor: Baden U'Ren
Griffith University
BCLV
We have all seen it. Many of us have experienced it. We all want to control it. Underwear behaving badly. BCLV have identified a need and designed an attractive device that will prevent underwear from riding up, moving, or, being visible from underneath clothing. This device will be presented as a piece of fashion jewelry that can be attached to all kinds of clothing, initially targeting woman's problem pants and jeans. This product will provide consumers with the confidence and control to wear their desired style of clothing without any embarrassing unintended wardrobe malfunctions. BCLV have cheekily named this product the GSpot and asks, "GSpot Where's yours?"
Team Members: Leonie Chesterton and Belinda Webb.
Acadmic Advisor: Ken Bennett
Monash University
ByGreen
ByGreen is a company that will design, produce and market a range of biodegradable plates and cutlery items from biological waste material. Our aim is to make the world a better, greener and cooler place to live in. We at ByGreen are paying attention to developing new products which are environmentally safe and will contribute towards the sustainable use of natural resources. It will be a highly profitable new business venture which will produce products that that will cater for a growing demand from governments and consumers around the world for eco-friendly utility products.
Team Members:
Nanda Kumar, Girish Talreja and
Rodney Wells
Academic Advisors:
Associate Professor Peter Reed and Max Coulthard
QUT
inSURFhaler
inSURFhaler is a wrist-mounted, waterproof ventolin inhaler which will amplify the “quality of life” for 2 million Australian and 34 million American asthma sufferers. inSURFhaler’s award winning, patent pending design, unique firing action, waterproof sheath and one-piece wristlocker converts ventolin access and lifestyle administration to a go-anywhere, anytime convenience. All asthmatics above 8 years can now conveniently reduce the stress and risks from asthma attack in any environment. inSURFhaler has broad appeal for indoor and outdoor applications, for water and land based activities, for sports enthusiasts, services professionals, the elderly, parents and in fact, all asthmatics. (10% of the population).
Team Members: Mickael Blanc, Mark Boardman,
Rodney Cusack, Craig Dawes and Nicole Dundas
Academic Advisor: Neil James
RMIT University
WAT - Wine Any Time
Our business, ‘Wat’ Wine Any Time, sits in the alcoholic beverage industry. Our product is a ready to drink, single serve glass of wine which is hygienically sealed in a convenient and stylish outdoor PET plastic wine glass. It can be consumed in places where glass is considered to be unsafe, inconvenient or environmentally unsound. Initially, we will be targeting outdoor festivals, stadiums and catered events. Our business meets a number of needs in the industry such as reducing service time; eliminating wastage; exact portion control; easy peel lid; fully recyclable; PET packaging; light weight nature; improved safety.
Team Members: Georgia Beattie, Lucio Dana and Falon White
Academic Advisors: Dr David Gilbert / Alan Peck
Swinburne University of Technology
DTG™ High Security Sample Collection
DTG™ has developed a unique anti-doping test kit which provides for improved security in the collection and transportation of samples by sports anti-doping authorities. The DTG™ system incorporates a patented DoubleTamperGuard™ closure which is effectively two closures in one and is the basis of the new DTG™ tamper evident plastic sample collection system. It is our unswerving goal for the DTG™ system to become the approved choice for drug testing and detection in human (and animal) sports and to be recognised as the premier anti-doping test kit by the international community.
Team Members:
Peter Bares,
Paul Sharkey,
Sasha Fichera and
Travis Hardy
Academic Advisor: Dr Seth Jones
The University of Adelaide
Solarator™ by Red to Green
Solarator™ is a renewable energy technology, being developed by a South Australia company called “Red to Green Recycled Energy Systems” Pty. Ltd. Solarator™ is designed to reduce total energy consumption in buildings, including domestic houses, office buildings and some larger commercial applications. Solarator™ is a “low-rpm vertical axis solar thermal wind generator”. This technology makes it possible to convert solar and waste heat energy into electricity. This can help reduce total power consumption by up to 25% and generate up to 25% of household energy needs. These combined benefits allow Solarator™ to also reduce domestic greenhouse gas emissions by 2.5 to 3.5 tonnes per year for an average 3 bedroom brick veneer home.
Team Members: Peter Wiltshire and Ty Yengi
Academic Advisors: Professor Noel Lindsay and Gary Hancock
The University of the Sunshine Coast
BigSmallBiz
BigSmallBiz provides a service to small businesses that leverages technology, creating economies of scale previously only available to larger businesses. Services range from basic business analytics to total hands-on management. This proves business survival and success rates, permitting lifestyle entrepreneurs to focus on the aspects of their business, and their life, that they most enjoy.BigSmallBiz will grow nationally via a licensee model, offering a turnkey opportunity for MBA qualified and experienced business people to support their community's businesses.
Team Members: Dericka Frost and Will Lotkowitz
Academic Advisor: Professor Evan Douglas
Victoria University
Ben’s Access
Following the disastrous Victorian bushfires this year, Ben’s Access has developed and is promoting an innovative product that will save lives by providing access for all people to any underground bushfire bunker. The product is in the form of a reinforced concrete pre-fabricated passageway that will accommodate wheelchairs and allow access to safe refuge for those who are unable to climb ladders.
Team Members: Annemarie Johnson, Angela Jones,
Sriyani Senanayake and
Biying Zhang
Academic Advisor: Elena
Ashley