Newcastle University spin-out companies

Newcastle University, a city centre based university in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom has created a number of spin-out companies, largely within the scientific and computer software domains.

A

• Arjuna Technologies Ltd., a middleware technology company founded in 1985 and spun-out in 1998. Purchased by Bluestone Software in 2000 for $13.25 million. Became HP-Arjuna Labs when Bluestone was purchased by HP in 2001 for $525 million. After the Compaq merger the company had a management buy-out and became independent before the sale Arjuna Transaction Service IP to JBoss Group in late 2005.^[1]
• Arrow Therapeutics Ltd., a drugs discovery company.

B

• BatchCAD Ltd., a company providing pre-packaged software.
• BioFresh Ltd., a company that develops systems to reduce spoilage for the horticultural, agricultural and the food industry.
• Bioprofiles Ltd, a company specializing in DNA fingerprinting for trees.

C

• Claremont Controls, a software design and consultancy business.
• Clarizon Ltd., a company working on an electrolytic cell for generating ozone with high efficiencies.

E

• Electrokinetic Ltd. (formerly NuGround Ltd.), a geotechnical engineering consultancy company.
• Envision LLP, a marine science and coastal management company.
• EVER 1391 Ltd., a nanotechnology company.

G

• Geneius Laboratories Ltd., DNA technology. Spun out in 2007.^[2]

H

• Hale Stephenson Ltd., a company providing a structural dynamics monitoring service.

I

• Inrotis Technologies Ltd., a company that provides systematic tools for discovering and validating single and combination targets for drug development.

N

• Newchem Technologies Ltd. a chemical research and development company.
• Novocastra Laboratories Ltd. a developer and manufacturer of reagents for biomedical research.
• Nuwater Consulting Ltd, a water industry consultancy.

O

• Orla Protein Technologies Ltd., a bio-nanotechnology company.

P

• PowerTrial Ltd., a company that produce web-based software for the management of clinical and translational medical research.

S

• Seabait Ltd., a supplier of marine bait.
• Selective Antibodies Ltd., research and development laboratories.
• SERU Consulting Ltd (formerly ERS Consulting Ltd)., a business and management consultancy.
• Smartsign Intelligent Direction Ltd., a developer of contact-less smart-card technology.

T

• The Sowerby Centre for Health Informatics at Newcastle University (SHIN)Ltd., a health informatics research, development and evaluation organisation.
• Trends Business Research Ltd., a business and economic research consultancy company.

V

• Viratom Ltd, a company performing virological research, development and assessment of antivirals.

X

• Xcellsyz Ltd., a company developing novel human cell systems.

References

1. ^ "About". Arjuna. http://www.arjuna.com/about. Retrieved 2010-02-20. 
2. ^ "About". Geneius. http://www.geneiuslabs.co.uk/index.php/about. Retrieved 2010-02-12. 

External links

• "Spin-Out Companies". Newcastle University. http://www.ncl.ac.uk/business/success/spinout/all.