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Results of Final Round
- Winners of Competition

Our heartfelt congratulations to the winning teams!

First place	Gelomatrix (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Second place	Medtrieval (Oklahoma City University, USA)
Third place	Sola Caritas (Queen’s University, Canada)

Here are the Finalists of the 2008 Competition (in alphabetical order).

No	Title	Reg ID	Institution	Description
1	FlatCity	20189	Singapore Management University, Singapore	FlatCity is positioned to be the soul of communities in China to offer residents with feelings of a poetic dwelling, by providing an integrated platform with information and services tackling all issues in the way of an enjoyable community life.
2	Gelomatrix	20148	National University of Singapore, Singapore	Gelomatrix's product, Chondromatrix, is an implantable material that repairs articular knee cartilage through in-vivo tissue regeneration. The procedure utilizes stem cells from the patient’s bone marrow and is minimally invasive. The company seeks to be the leader of knee cartilage repair market for patients with active lifestyles.
3	Medtrieval	20214	Oklahoma City University, USA	Medtrieval’s mission is to provide safe, efficient, and reliable automated medication retrieval systems for use in correctional and assisted living facilities where there are high risks for error and drug abuse. Medtrieval is dedicated to maintaining outstanding client relationships to provide the most dependable medication retrieval systems available.
4	Project Six Sense	20091	Seoul National University, South Korea	Project Six Sense provides a system and method that collects information of clothes tried on by a customer but are unsold, and compare the information with that of sold clothes, thereby allowing apparel companies to design and sell clothes in accordance with customers needs and develop effective marketing plans.
5	Sola Caritas	20106	Queen's University, Canada	Sola Caritas is a social enterprise that helps companies market themselves online while building their corporate social image; it comes at a perfect time when the world yearns for greater corporate responsibility and when targeted online interactive marketing is becoming mainstream practice.
6	Solar-in-a-box	20197	National University of Singapore, Singapore	Solar-in-the-box is a standardized package that can be mass manufactured. Solar Panels installations currently requires installation by putting together components and skilled labor. With Solar-in-a-box, 50% of the cost (installation cost) will be eliminated, opening up the developing world market worth $38 Billion.

Here are the other 9 semi Finalists of the 2008 Competition (in alphabetical order)

No	Title	Reg ID	Institution	Description
1	Feel My Life	20150	Singapore Management University, Singapore	Feel My Life, a project developed by iFeel Technologies, offers a myriad of useful services in the emerging Web 3.0 era. Our aim is to establish it as a leading online social networking site which brings interactive experiences to new heights by levering upon innovative and highly scalable solutions.
2	Greenstone	20080	National University of Singapore, Singapore	The production of Portland cement, the main ingredient for concrete, contribute 6-8% of the world’s CO2 emissions. Greenstone aims to use our proprietary manufacturing technology to combat global warming by absorbing CO2 and combining it with other industrial waste materials like fly-ash, silica and iron particles.
3	Heel Your Soles	20160	Singapore Management University, Singapore	Heel Your Soles is the brainchild stemming from the frustration of 3 women torn by the conflicting compulsions of their desire for fashion and the experience of discomfort. The core products are adjustable heels, which can be altered in length to form high-heeled, medium-heeled or flat shoes.
4	Ladybird Cleaning Technologies	20107	Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore	This business plan is regarding with the set up of an high-tech cleaning company. The company aims to change the image of the cleaning industry through the use of technology - one of which is The Ladybird . It is a automated machine capable of cleaning the exterior of buildings.
5	MobileME: Mobile Social Networking	20164	National University of Singapore, Singapore	MOBILEME will be the leading innovation that drives social networking towards its full potential in the mobile world. MobileME intends to fill the market gap for social networking systems which go on mobile phone and intends to utilise the extended location-aware technologies to create location-based mobile social network.
6	Oorzaa Inc.	20194	National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India	Generating waves of Power.
7	Security 2.0 Business Plan	20122	KAIST, South Korea	The Next Generation Security System combining Collective Intelligence with Proactive Security Technology.
8	Seguro Technologies	20213	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore	Drowsiness has been established to the number one cause of road accidents, leading to as much as $12.5 billion in monetary losses every year. Seguro Technologies' flagship product Vigil, a drowsiness detecting and alerting device, uses the latest technology to address this issue effectively.
9	Bio-Green: Sterculia foetida	20103	Petra Christian University, Indonesia	This Bio-Diesel Oil from “Sterculia foetida” is a new cheap and a breakthrough for Diesel users. With the usage of this product, it will decrease the pollution, global warming issue, exploitation of crude oil, cost of production (for industries). It will also maximize the usage of this plant itself.

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