Projects

Case Studies - Investment Support: Projects
Some examples of Innotec’s experience in Investment Support include:

Analysis of technology, manufacturing and business plans for a very wide range (over 500) companies as business and technology advisors to the DTI Electronics Design programme. Products range from simple electro-mechanical to complex microelectronic products.
Grant assessment for the DTI’s Micro/Nanotechnology Initiative and Technology Programme
Strategic evaluation and development of a multi-billion pound joint-venture in the provision of mobile telecommunications infrastructure.
Analysis of technology and business plan of a company involved in the design of a high-speed serial bus system for incorporation in ASIC and custom microelectronic devices.
Negotiation of price and terms of a potential buy-out of part of a major telecommunications company on behalf of a company based in the Far East.
Analysis of technology and business plan of a fab-less chip company involved in the design and manufacture of a range of mixed-signal integrated-circuit (IC) devices for analogue and digital signal processing for high-volume consumer electronics products.
Analysis of technology, manufacturing & business plan of a company involved in RF tagging.
Analysis of technology, manufacturing & business plan of a company involved in high-speed internet server technology (software & hardware).
Review of business plans of companies planning to relocate electronics manufacturing facilities
Evaluation of the feasibility of new semiconductor technologies for commercial applications and the viability of the company prior to further substantial investment.
Technical due diligence for the acquisition of a company in the healthcare market, covering a wide range of technologies and products.
Evaluation of the availability of semiconductor technologies for high performance networking products.
Long-term post-investment evaluation and advice on technology and design processes for the Board of Patientline PLC (symbol PTL) and their investors from 2000, through flotation on the AIM in 2001 and transfer to the Official List in 2003, to successful installation of their T2 systems in 2004.
Review over a period of 2 years of a funded project to develop a new Flash EEPROM technology for use in mobile phones.
Evaluation of technologies for the semiconductor implementation of ATM, IP and other high-performance network technologies over VDSL for the provision of high performance customer premises connections.
Analysis of the business plan and the technical/manufacturing viability of a battery company prior to substantial government investment.
Evaluation of the validity of patents in SiGe bipolar technologies and analysis of their potential for/sources of revenue generation
Reviews, over a period of 4 years, of a project funded to develop a new radiation-hard technology for space applications.
Reviews, over a period of 3 years, of a European funded project to develop an image sensor for industrial applications.
Evaluation of the technology and advice to a multinational client of TWI regarding the packaging of the electronics contained in an industrial tool for use in harsh environments (moisture and potentially corrosive dust ingress).
The creation and implementation, as an Executive Management Team member, of a strategic restructuring plan resulting in recognition of his company by Business Week as one of the "100 Best Small [US] Companies of 2002".
The execution of parallel growth and sell strategies to maximise return on multiple technology investments, including the spin-out of a £130 million Energy Technology subsidiary, and supervision of the creation of the spin-out's business plan and technology road map
Transformation of an R&D group into an organisation in compliance with applicable governmental regulations, that manufactured and marketed an award-winning medical product (US "R&D 1 00" Award)
Evaluation of numerous US Small Business Innovation Research grant applications
Evaluation of the business plan for the commercialisation of a structural health monitoring technology, and analysis of opportunities in the oil and gas and aerospace industry
Analysis of the market potential for academic innovations in the analytical instrumentation, medical imaging, semiconductor fabrication, precast concrete and other markets
Valuation of a large intellectual property portfolio for a publicly-traded firm that is a world leader in the commercialisation of novel technologies.