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2005
Cummings Properties Awards
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MIT
Enterprise Forum of Cambridge -
Igniting Massachusett's Clean Energy Future Competition |
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Advanced
Conductors
$25,000 Cummings
Properties Award winner
Advanced Conductors provides equipment and processes for the vapor-phase
deposition of conducting polymers to manufacturers in the emerging
organic semiconductor market. Its coating technology will enable
gains in the efficiency, lifetime, and production cost of new energy-saving
devices including organic LEDs for general lighting, flexible displays,
plastic solar cells, and electrochromic films for dynamically tinting
glass.
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LiquidPiston
$10,000 Cummings
Properties Award winner
LiquidPiston is developing a new internal combustion engine that
is projected to double fuel efficiency and reduce pollutant emissions
by 70-90 percent, when compared to conventional engines. The LiquidPiston
engine is inherently scalable from lawnmowers to locomotives, providing
a platform that can compete in any segment of the combustion engine
market.
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PowerHouse
Enterprises
$10,000 Cummings
Properties Award winner
PowerHouse Enterprises is the first high-style, high-performance,
green modular homebuilder/developer in the region. Harnessing factory
efficiencies, PowerHouse can profitably combine high-quality construction
with enhanced energy-efficiency features to create stylish architect-designed,
healthy homes that arrive on time, on budget, and are competitively
priced for the developer or private homebuyer.
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$50K Entrepreneurship Competition |
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Balico
$50,000 Cummings
Properties Award winner
Balico will develop and commercialize a wearable vibrotactile balance
aid that accurately senses and displays body tilt in order to help
prevent falls.
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Vacuum Excavation
Technologies
$25,000 Cummings
Properties Award winner
The top ten feet of soil are densely packed with utility wires,
gas mains and sewer pipes whose location is often poorly mapped.
Excavation with traditional backhoes damages utilities and puts
operators at risk for catastrophic injury. Vacuum Excavation Technologies
offers a new excavation device that works with existing machinery
to enable efficient operation without risk to utilities or operators.
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Nanocell Power
$25,000 Cummings
Properties Award winner
Nanocell Power's technology enables the viability of fuel cells
for portable electronics today and paves the way for tomorrow's
automotive fuel cell market. Our patented manufacturing process
provides more efficient distribution of expensive catalyst and carbon
nanofibers in the fuel cell membrane. This can decrease the size
of fuel cells in portable electronics by 80%, increase the power
output of military fuel cells by 400%, or cut the cost of automotive
fuel cells to 20% that of today's technology.
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Business
Plan Competition at the
Center for Technology Management Innovation Fest 2005 |
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Ritmo
Latino
$25,000 Cummings
Properties Award winner
Ritmo Latino plan to introduce the first FM Spanish radio station
to the Greater Boston area.
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