MOOT CORP 2003: Participating Universities and Ventures
Teams from 14 countries and 30 of the world's most prominent MBA programs will participate in the 2003 Global MOOT Corp contest, the world's original, largest and most lucrative student business plan competition. The 20th annual Moot Corp will take place on campus at The University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business April 29 - May3, 2003. See the April 25, 2003, feature story for a preview of the 2003 competition.
Division I
Plasvacc USA
Bond University, Australia
Plasvacc's technology is a proprietary production process for animal blood plasma production. The technology allows for multiple products based on animal species.
BioMed
Florida A & M University
BioMed will develop and market Baby Pulse, a wireless, real-time pulse monitoring system for home health care of infants.
Lion Rock TourIsME
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
TourIsME Company is a Hong Kong based technology company that operates in tourism management and advertisement services.
HeadStart Central
London Business School
HeadStart Central provides premium after-school educational services targeting ethnic communities within California that place high value on such services.
KidSmart Corporation
University of Georgia
KidSmart Corporation has developed a new, patented vocal smoke detector that will significantly reduce the number of deaths and injuries to children during residential fires.
Ferrate Solutions
Babson College
Ferrate Solutions will manufacture and distribute a new water treatment chemical, potassium ferrate. Ferrate can treat contaminated water two to four times more effectively than current chemicals.
Division II
Team Hydrasure
Bond University, South Africa
Team Hydrasure will produce and market hydraulic pump and cylinder test rigs making it simpler for the client to test and repair pumps and cylinders.
Flexible Packaging
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM)
Flexible Packaging is a project where foil, plastic or paper is printed and cut for manufacturers of food and pharmaceutical industries needing smaller amounts of high quality packaging materials at a competitive price.
MineWolf
Wissenschaftliche Hochschule f_r Unternehmensf_hrung (WHU)
MineWolf offers a 100% effective mechanical demining service using a mobile, lightweight crawler tractor equipped with a patented toolbox system which ensures low operational costs.
Urban Paws
University of Portland
Urban Paws will strive to make busy urban dog owners' lives easier by providing dog daycare and several complementing services in one convenient location.
BioPharma
Chulalongkorn University
BioPharma manufactures and markets PerioCure invented by a Thai research team. PerioCure, an affordable, effective alternative to imported antibiotics, is used in the treatment of periodontal disease.
Maroon Biotech
University of Chicago
Maroon Biotech was founded to create and commercialize a new class of drugs to treat cellular damage associated spinal cord injuries, heart attacks and strokes.
Division III
ENE-SUN Light Energy Solutions
Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas (ESADE)
ENE-SUN intends to develop, assemble, market and sell portable solar power units to consumers, initially in the California market.
Aqua Essence
University of Oregon
Aqua Essence is a low-cost, easy-to-use and environmentally sound arsenic removal solution that exceeds the regulatory requirement and protects communities from arsenic in drinking water.
International Cash Connections
University of Georgia
International Cash Connections will serve the international remittance needs of Georgia and Florida Hispanic immigrant populations through the sale of its Casalink card.
NetImmune
Carnegie Mellon University
NetImmune develops and markets software to protect hospital computing infrastructure from cyber attack, preventing unauthorized disclosure of patient health information and quantifying network security liability.
PETCO
Fundaçao Getúlio Vargas (FGV)
PETCO's main activity will be the collection of used pet bottles and the subsequent recycling of them, targeting the sale of the end product to the Latin America beverage industry.
Micro MRI
University of Pennsylvania
Micro MRI licenses a technology that measures bone microstructure non-invasively, using regular MRI scanners. This will revolutionize diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of osteoporosis and bone metabolic disorders.
Division IV
eleDerm
San Diego State University
EleDerm is a new business venture that uses innovative proprietary technology for dermatology applications. EleDerm will capitalize on the rapidly growing $4.3 billion market for anti-aging products.
SoftStitch
University of Western Ontario
SoftStitch software will inspire creativity and enable consumers to design their own needlecraft patterns using a simple, quick and enjoyable software tool.
Latech Co. Ltd.
Thammasat University
Latech Co. has developed a process that removes harmful allergenic proteins from natural rubber products during manufacturing. Healthcare workers endure chronic dermatitis, asthma and other reactions due to these proteins.
ED Protocols
Rice University
ED Protocols, Inc. has developed a software solution to fully automate Emergency Department based Observation Centers. There are 1,500 such centers in the United States.
Adventech
University of Oxford
Adventech is commercializing a patented and proven fuel delivery system for combustion engines that increases fuel efficiency by over 30% while decreasing emissions.
Mobius Microsystems
University of Michigan
Mobius technology enables less expensive, smaller, more functional electronic products that consume less power by integrating clocks, in the form of patented intellectual property, directly on to microprocessors.
Division V
PlasiaTEK
University of Manitoba
PlasiaTEK is currently poised to launch its first medical device, the ultrasound-based Endvantage, which will revolutionize the way anesthesiologists and emergency responders perform endotracheal intubations.
Global Smart Systems
Universidad de los Andes - Uniandes
Global Smart Systems is an in-store marketing research company that has developed information systems on shoppers' behavior in traditional distribution channels.
Aeris Holdings
Case Western Reserve University
Aeris Holdings will develop the RESystem, a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell based solution that transforms biogas directly into electricity, without pollution, for the global agricultural marketplace.
Selectioneering
University of Arizona
Selectioneering is an Internet based scheduling application targeted at the healthcare industry. Selectioneering's choice-based scheduling approach promotes increased staffing equity over the standard optimization algorithms.
Fluorometrics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Fluorometrics will design and manufacture Micro X-ray Fluorescence machines and consumables. These machines and consumables will be marketed and sold initially to medium and large pharmaceutical companies.
Organic Energy Systems
The University of Texas at Austin
Organic Energy Systems capitalizes on global initiatives for clean energy by making and marketing economical and environmentally-friendly distributed energy systems using next-generation biomass fuel
technologies.
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