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6 UMIC ® UMIP ® UMI 3 Entrepreneur-in-Transit Scheme Update… Our Entrepreneur-in-Transit (EiT) scheme is growing and developing with 6 projects now under management. These are: > DataViewer Visualisation project with Prof Steve Watts, School of Physics and Astronomy. (EiT: John Collins) > Radio to Terahertz Quasi Optics project with Dr Bruno Maffei and Dr Gaimpaolo Pisano, School of Physics and Astronomy. (EiT: Nicholas Jones) > Phantom Limb Pain project with Dr Steve Pettifer, School of Computer Science. (EiT: Dr Rick Watson) > HiSolar project with Dr Magda Sibley, School of Environment, Education and Development. (EiT: Leigh Wharton). HiSolar has now been set up as a social business. > ViewIt project with Dr Michael Donmall, Institution of Population Health, National Drug Evidence Centre (EiT: Yousef Taktak) > TellUs project with Dr Richard Kingston, School of Environment, Education and Development. (EiT: Richard Buckley) The business plans are currently being developed and we look forward to seeing how our entrepreneurs take these projects to the next stage. We have also extended the reach of the scheme to involve Social Enterprise. Our EiT scheme invites entrepreneurs to work with us to explore the best ways in which to engage with the commercial market and validate the appeal of early-stage technologies. Creative innovation teams are formed between our leading academics and external entrepreneurs and businesses at a much earlier stage than our standard process. This allows us to respond to the needs of the market in an agile manner and direct our innovations for more successful commercialisation. We are looking to add to our team of EiTs - individuals with the relevant expertise to partner with our academics and use their entrepreneurial flair to enhance technology commercialisation outputs. Would you like to engage with a world-class research institution and be a UMIP Entrepreneur-in- Transit? If so, please contact Ellie Sagar, ellie.sagar@umip.com 0161 606 7265, for further information. EiT Wordle