Enterprise Awards 2007

In the first year of the Knowledge West Enterprise Awards entrants competed in the Best Student Business Plan and Most Innovative Start-up company categories with a prize fund of £18,000. Winners were announced at the awards ceremony held on board the historic SS Great Britain in Bristol.

The top award in the £10,000 Most Innovative Start-up Company category was shared between two winners - James Jardella and Adrian Burholt, both from the University of Bath. James' company Travelling Bug helps people wanting to travel abroad and volunteer independently. Adrian's company, The Key Revolution, offers a secure online service to enable wired or wireless access to portable devices controlled by a unique chip and pin identity device.

Tom Bennett from the University of the West of England (UWE) won £5,000 for the Best Student Business Plan category with his idea, Interactive Places. He has come up with a way of bringing heritage sites alive for all ages by offering interactive tours and games tailored to specific locations, to give every visitor a personalised experience.

Three special merit awards of £1,000 were also announced. For the Best Student Business Plan category, it was Zeng Biao and Anyu Gao from the University of Bristol with TalkTone™, an interactive Mandarin language self-teaching software package. Then Nic Smith of UWE for his new company, CoolBoard and Professors Chris Probert (Bristol) and Norman Ratcliffe (UWE) for their gastric disease diagnostic device Odour-reader won merit awards in the Most Innovative Start-up Company category.

Finalist videos

2007 Winner Story - Travellingbug

Press:

Knowledge West boosts budding University business

Double Win for University of Bath Innovation Businesses

UWE scoops Enterprise Awards