SwissLitho AG and Nanolive were announced among the winners of the 2015 R&D 100 award. This annual global award, the so called “Oscar of invention”, recognizes the top 100 companies with the most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace over the past year.
For the last five years no Swiss start-up was identified on the winners list. Sensimed, the developer of a non- invasive sensor, which is embedded in a soft contact lens, was the last start-up that was accorded with an award at the R&D 100 award ceremony in 2010.
This year actually two Swiss start-ups, SwissLitho AG and Nanolive SA received an award at the 53rd R&D award in the categories Process/Protityping and Analytical/Test respectively for their innovation and development of high-tech products and processes in 2014.
SwissLitho AG was founded in 2012 as a spinoff of the IBM research Zurich. The company manufacturers a unique and innovative nano-manufacturing tool: The NanoFrazor. Researchers and nanotechnology manufacturers apply this machine to create tiny nano-structures faster and easily, even in 3D. This rapid-prototyping capability enables new innovations in nanotechnology such as the future electronical, optical, and biological or quantum nano-devices. The company also has an international and interdisciplinary character with physicists, material scientists and software and electrical engineers from 10 different countries.
Nanolive is in the business of research and development of new techniques for cell imaging. The company was established in 2013 and specializes on a disruptive proprietary technology, holographic tomography: a laser-based cell tomography system combined with a powerful algorithm that allows the exploration of the interior of a living cell in 3D without modifying and thus damaging it.
R&D 100 Award is an annual award recognizes and honours leaders of the science and technology industries for their innovative, high-tech products and processes. Some of them major participants in the award are established fortune companies, federally financed research institutions as well as academic and government labs. Finalists and winners are selected from five major categories; Analytical/Test, IT/Electrical, Mechanical/Materials, Processing/Prototyping and Software/Services.
Submission for the for the 54th R&D 100 award 2016 is now open.
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