The winners of the 5th annual Academic Enterprise Awards have been announced at a conference that brought together Europe's innovation leaders to discuss the importance of research, innovation and entrepreneurship
Denmark provided its first winner of the ACES awards – the only pan-European awards for academic spin-outs – at a ceremony in Brussels this evening. It was joined as winners by founders of spin-outs from universities in France, Switzerland and the UK in a competition that proved that Europe's universities can buck the continent-wide recession. Despite what is widely seen as an investment famine, these spin-outs all managed to attract funding to capitalise on Europe's ofworld-ranked research to create enterprises with the potential to be world-beaters.
Danish company ABEO, winner of the Materials and Chemicals Award, uses ideas developed at the Technical University of Denmark and Copenhagen Business School to produce pre-formed concrete, which improves the cost-effectiveness and environmental performance of concrete constructions as well as saving on CO2 emissions.
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