Academia opens for business

Thomas Lipinski, CTO

Our energy related achievements

Environment & Energy Awards 2011 – Shortlisted

Construction News Awards 2011 - Shortlisted

Retrofit AwardsBest Retrofit Innovation 2010: Winner

Retrofit AwardsBest Retrofit 2010: Highly commended

Ecobuild 2010Award for best innovative sustainable construction product

Green Apple AwardsEnvironmental Best Practice 2009 - Bronze Winner

Green Apple AwardsEnvironmental Best Practice 2009 - Gold Winner

International Green Apple Awards Best 2009 Builder and Developer: Gold

International Green Apple Awards Built Environment & Architectural Heritage: 2009 Green Champion

The Sustainable City Awards,The City of London, Best Sustainable Building 2009: Winner

FX Magazine International Design AwardsBest Eco Project 2009: Finalist

Environmental Excellence Awards Best Carbon Reduction Project 2008: Winner

Building Magazine Sustainability Awards 99% Campaign Award for Refurbishment: Runner up

Green Structures?

• Design of Energy Saving Products & Systems (Passive Heat Recovery Ventilation)

• Development of Energy Efficient Technologies (Thermal Storage)

• Sustainable Architecture (Passive Space, Zero Carbon Buildings)

• Modelling & prototyping of Modern Built Environment Innovations (Low Energy Heating or Cooling)

• Design of New Construction Methodologies (Passive Adaptive building systems, Thermal Memory House)

Collaboration between Academia and SMEs

• Spin-outs

• Incubators

• Problem solving

• Research Relationships

• Knowledge Transfer Partnerships

• Collaborative Joint Ventures

University spin-outs

University derived SMEs – the most intensive of relationships where the University has a stake in the start-up

• EVO Electric. Established in 2007 as a spin-out company from Imperial College London to commercialise new electric machine technologies.

• QuantaSol, another spin-out from Imperial College London developed advanced technology of high efficiency III generation based solar cells.

Commercial in Confidence

Imperial Innovations Group plc

2004Ceres Power floats on Alternative Investment Market

2006

£26m

Imperial Innovations Group plc floats on AIM raising £26 million

Inforsense raises Series A £5.3 million

2005

Private Placement of shares in Imperial Innovations raises £10 million for the Company

£10m

Thiakis raisesSeries A £10.0 million

2008

Innovations realises £4.0 million from partial Ceres Power sale

Created FSA regulated subsidiary , Imperial Innovations Investment Management Ltd

Circassia raisesSeries B £11.0 million

Thiakis sold to Wyeth for £100.0 million

Respivert raisesSeries A £13.0 million

The businessThe portfolio

2007

£30m

Raised £30 million through private placement of shares

Circassia raisesSeries A £6.25 million

Nexeon raises Series A £4.25 million

Veryan raisesSeries A £5.3 million

2009Nexeon raisesSeries B £10.0m

Inforsense sold to IBDS

Circassia raisesSeries C £15.25 million

2010

Veryan Medical raises £3.6m

Polytherics raises £3m

MET sold to Evonik AG for €4.5m

University based incubators“Incubator is a hub for innovation and entrepreneurship providing office and laboratory space early-stage businesses who can take advantage of being in close proximity to eminent scientists and experts in technology.”

•Run by Universities;•Mostly occupied by in house spinouts;•Based on incentivised office space and proximity

Problem solving & consultancy

Connecting small businesses with researchers

•Hiring a consultant from academia generally not an option for SMEs.

•Yet academic consultancy helps hundreds of small businesses every year.

•Knowledge Connect, accessible via Business Link, helps SMEs fund and find the specialist academic support to help tap into academic potential.

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships

Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) is a programme facilitating partnerships between a business and an academic institution.

KTPs are funded by The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

ESRC provides funding for PhD studentships where businesses take the lead in arranging projects with an academic partner of their choice.

The aim is to provide PhD students with a challenging research training experience, within the context of a mutually beneficial research collaboration between academic and partner organisations.

Collaborative R&D (KTA)Innovation Awards for Collaborative R&D

The University of Sheffield has launched a scheme (funded by EPSRC) to work with UK based SMEs in the area of `Building for the Future´.

10 Innovation Awards have been made available to initiate Collaborative R&D projects and give SMEs the opportunity to access research expertise and facilities at the University of Sheffield.

Projects are business-led and aim to develop innovative products, processes or technology in the area of `Building for the Future´.

Green Structures won 2 Collaborative R&D Innovation Awards:Thermal Accumulator &On-demand Solar CHP

Thermal Energy Storage (TES) is the temporary storage of high or low temperature energy for later use.

Collaborative Joint Ventures

Energy Unplugged - a Clean Technology start-up resulting from partnership between Imperial College London and Green Structures.

Energy-Unplugged

• We aim to develop and patent a basket of new technologies relating to Smart Grid management, Intelligent Energy Production and Energy Storage.

• We are currently looking for a collaboration with an an appropriate Incubator scheme that, in combination with EU funding, will allow for speedy development of the business.

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Engineering

Electrical and

Electronic Engineering

Computer Science and Informatics

Business and Management

Civil Engineering

Chemical Engineering

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Excellence| Imperial ranks highly amongst UK universities (RAE 2008)

Engineering at Imperial College London

• Engineering design

• Supply chain and workflow optimisation

• Maximise time and cost savings

Professor Peter ChildsDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringCreativity & the application of creative methodsSustainability by design

Professor Nilay ShahCentre for Process Systems EngineeringSupply chains of the futureOperations and controlSystem of systems optimisation

Dr Nick LeonDesign LondonVisualisationDigital prototyping(Joint centre with Royal College of Art)

Energy-Unplugged

tom@greenstructures.co.uk