Six academics from five Scottish universities have made it through to the final of the Converge Challenge - a competition open to students and staff of any Scottish university, giving them a chance to develop the commercial potential of their inventions.
The finalists this year are medical device company Ultravizion from the University of Dundee; cryogenics instrumentation company, Razorbill Instruments from the University of St Andrews and a new system for automated sports performance tracking, Shot Scope Technologies, which hails from the University of Edinburgh, whilst Heriot-Watt University makes it a Capital ‘double’ with DiverSense Ltd that offers a sensor system for composition analysis and quality control in three primary markets: food, oil & gas and chemical industries.