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Some of Manchester's campus based community who are opting to innovate: Mark Ashworth and Max Hebditch, Metriculate Limited Mark Ashworth Max Hebditch Optimiser support • Award Funding • One 2 One Sessions • Venture Planning • Introductions to Advisors • Business Model Generation • Intellectual Property Advice Key achievements • Secured £5,000 of investment and enterprise support through the UMIP Innovation Optimiser (2016), alongside formalised backing from The University of Manchester • Achieved 2nd place and received £2,500 of funding from The University of Manchester Enterprise Centre Venture Further business plan competition (2015) • Received £2,000 of start-up funding from UMIP through the IQuBit programme (2015) • Secured £250 through the Sheffield First Steps fund • Working with several development partners to develop an initial minimal viable product and completed the wireframe designs for the user interface and experience, and workflow Legal Structure: Limited by Shares Faculty: Science and Engineering Website: www.metriculate.co.uk Mission: To increase productivity in the research and development sector utilising a reservation and monitoring system for scientific equipment, facilitating more efficient and intelligent usage of vital lab equipment. Why are we innovative? 1) The directors both have first-hand experience in academia and industry, which allows them to utilise this knowledge and develop an efficient, automated asset management solution 2) The specialised and networked Metriculate platform solves many of the usage problems faced by current booking systems and provides new value to users in the form of previously inaccessible data 3) Metriculate allows users to determine where equipment is, make a booking, find out who's using it, what it's used for and who owns it, thus solving the logistical and financial problems of locating, accessing, booking and monitoring expensive pieces of equipment. It also acts as a discovery and collaboration tool to allow world-class experts to work in partnership on projects 11 Case study