TARTU’S UNIVERSITIES GIVE RECOGNITION TO INNOVATIVE ENTERPRISES AND RESEARCHERS
06.05.2005
Thirteen companies and 5 new inventions had been entered in the
competition organised in the three categories set out above as part of
the Entrepreneurship Week.
The award of the universities’ most innovative partner went to Estonian Animal Breeders Association, whose members employ the results of research conducted at the Estonian Agricultural University in their breeding and breeding material collection activities. Entrants in this category included the brewery AS (plc) A. Le Coq, the dairy company AS Tallinna Piimatööstus, Elcogen AS, Asper Biotech AS and a number of other innovative enterprises.
In the category of ‘best spin-off company’ the title was awarded to the private limited company OÜ Müomeetria, which develops and produces myometers for measuring muscle tone. The company’s products have been used for muscle tone measurements by the members of Estonian national cross-country ski team as well as a number of other famous athletes. In addition to OÜ Müomeetria, the participants in this category included the language software company OÜ Keelevara, the gene technology company AS E-Geen, OÜ VitaMare, OÜ Positum and OÜ Autoseir.
In the category ‘best invention made at Tartu’s universities’, the top contestant turned out to be the probiotic lactobacterium ME-3 discovered by researchers at the University of Tartu and used with commercial success by the dairy company AS Tallinna Piimatööstus in its line of ‘Hellus’ (‘tenderness’) products. The line has also caused the novel bacterium strain (Lactobacillus fermentum ME-3) to be dubbed the ‘Hellus bacterium’.
Other inventions considered by the jury included the method for obtaining an optically transparent electricity-conducting fibre and the nanotip sensor of point source microscope made from it, the thermophile strain of Bacillus coagulans for producing L-lactate, a biosensor and the method for its production, as well as a device for registering the vibrations of biological tissue (the myometer).
The competition was organised as part of the project SPINNO 2 coordinated by the UT Institute of Technology and financed by the Enterprise Estonia Foundation.
Further information regarding the awards is available at http://www.tuit.ut.ee .
Illari Lään
Head, UT Public Relations and Information Office
Additional information: UT Institute of Technology, Ms Jane Saatre, tel. +372-737-4802
The award of the universities’ most innovative partner went to Estonian Animal Breeders Association, whose members employ the results of research conducted at the Estonian Agricultural University in their breeding and breeding material collection activities. Entrants in this category included the brewery AS (plc) A. Le Coq, the dairy company AS Tallinna Piimatööstus, Elcogen AS, Asper Biotech AS and a number of other innovative enterprises.
In the category of ‘best spin-off company’ the title was awarded to the private limited company OÜ Müomeetria, which develops and produces myometers for measuring muscle tone. The company’s products have been used for muscle tone measurements by the members of Estonian national cross-country ski team as well as a number of other famous athletes. In addition to OÜ Müomeetria, the participants in this category included the language software company OÜ Keelevara, the gene technology company AS E-Geen, OÜ VitaMare, OÜ Positum and OÜ Autoseir.
In the category ‘best invention made at Tartu’s universities’, the top contestant turned out to be the probiotic lactobacterium ME-3 discovered by researchers at the University of Tartu and used with commercial success by the dairy company AS Tallinna Piimatööstus in its line of ‘Hellus’ (‘tenderness’) products. The line has also caused the novel bacterium strain (Lactobacillus fermentum ME-3) to be dubbed the ‘Hellus bacterium’.
Other inventions considered by the jury included the method for obtaining an optically transparent electricity-conducting fibre and the nanotip sensor of point source microscope made from it, the thermophile strain of Bacillus coagulans for producing L-lactate, a biosensor and the method for its production, as well as a device for registering the vibrations of biological tissue (the myometer).
The competition was organised as part of the project SPINNO 2 coordinated by the UT Institute of Technology and financed by the Enterprise Estonia Foundation.
Further information regarding the awards is available at http://www.tuit.ut.ee .
Illari Lään
Head, UT Public Relations and Information Office
Additional information: UT Institute of Technology, Ms Jane Saatre, tel. +372-737-4802