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We were able to demonstrate the concept of
100% functionality a fraction of the development
cost and fivefold performance increase.
Transitive Corporation
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UNIVERSITY SPIN-OUT
The research developed over time with teams of
successive research students and tutor groups "trying to
see what could be built". From mid-1996 onward,
discussions with personal contacts in industry began
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.
An evaluation contract followed with a hardware
manufacturer and discussions began with the University's
technology commercialisation arm (Vuman – one of the
forerunners of UMI
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) on key applications which would
take the technology to market.