Alumni achievements

Here are some examples of what ScotSkills Alumni are achieving:

• Winning a Principal's Enterprise Award, University of Dundee

• Writing a patent application in connection with molecular electronics

• Being awarded RSE Fellowships (three successful awards from three applications)

• Forming an extra-curricular hobbyist club for young people

• Co-founding Robomotic, a business targeting turnover of £7m in year 1

• Making the finals of the Alba Innovation Challenge 2009

• Becoming a regional Finalist in the John Logie Baird Award

• Making a patent application for an invention in semiconductors

• Being selected for the High Growth Pipeline from the Scottish Business Gateway

• Winning the New Venture Competition for best start-up and technology

• Forming Musemantik to provide videogames developers with extra control of immersive mood

• Negotiating a University department's first ever licence sale of electronic controls software

• Forming a partnership to provide relocation advice and property renting negotiation

• Getting selected for the Ignite Cambridge programme

• Founding a profitmaking Limited company - a boutique oriental/persian rug repair business

• Managing a Cardiff University Spinout (creating scientific instruments)

• Finishing in the Top 10 in Connect Scotland 2009

• Negotiating licences for drug development patents with North American investors

• Pitching a business plan to establish a new company aimed at manufacturing building materials in the developing world