Case Studies

Karen Hamilton

The second Scottish Funding Council Innovation Voucher awarded to a college has been given to fund a collaboration between Designer and Dressmaker, Karen Hamilton and Dundee and Angus College for a project on a pioneering 3D lace printing project.

Renewable Parts Ltd

Interface successfully matched Renewable Parts Ltd to the University of Strathclyde to develop an innovation programme for the repair of wind turbine parts.

Networks4Learning

Networks4Learning Limited is a Social Enterprise based in Glasgow. With the support of Ruth Oliver from Interface and an Innovation Voucher from the Scottish Funding Council, they have successfully collaborated with the University of Glasgow to develop affordable smart greenhouse farming applications for Africa.

Attis Fitness Ltd

Attis Fitness is developing an innovative smart wearable for runners. The product is a compression legging that has smart sensors embedded into the fabric. Interface matched the company with CENSIS to help develop its initial demonstrator, especially the challenge of integration of the sensor data to enhanced performance.

TransK9

After establishing relevant academic expertise, Interface was able to successfully set up a collaboration with the University of the West of Scotland’s Engineering Department in Paisley to crash test TransK9’s latest dog cage.

Welbot

Welbot initially collaborated with the University of Strathclyde to understand how they could extract knowledge and insights from data and machine learning, especially around autonomous, self-teaching systems that can analyse data and provide insights to human behaviour. They then went on to work with both the University of Edinburgh and the University of Aberdeen.

Investment Solver (Inbest)

Interface connects Investment Solver Ltd to University of Edinburgh to develop Inbest, a data analytics platform, aimed to measure, track and improve the financial well-being of UK consumers.

Norscot Joinery Ltd

Interface introduced Norscot Joinery Ltd to the University of Strathclyde, who has a wealth of expertise and knowledge of the integration of Building Information Modelling and gaming software, to create a specialised user experience to enable Norscot's clients to virtually experience their bespoke homes through new, innovative smartphone technology.

YO! Marketing

Yekemi’s innovative idea was to design an intelligent solution of using a machine learning algorithm. The entrepreneur approached Interface to help her find the necessary academic expertise in Machine Learning, Dataset Modelling and Data Mining. After putting out a search to various universities, Interface matched Yekemi with Dr Xavier Bellekens, Assistant Professor and Lecturer at the University of Abertay within the Division of Cyber-Security, where he is leading the Machine Learning Research Group.

KINGDOM Scotland Ltd

KINGDOM Scotland collaborated with the University of St Andrews to draw on the rich flavours and textures of Scotland’s cultural heritage – from landscape and mythology to whisky distilling and the history of perfume in Scotland – to inspire and develop a luxury brand of perfume.

Horses and Hydroponics

Funded by a Scottish Funding Council Innovation Voucher, a report was commissioned to cover the environmental, financial, and practical elements involved in growing hydroponic grass in Scotland and the wider UK to support the desire of horse owners to grow high quality feed at an affordable and sustainable level. This system would help and encourage the use of poorer quality land to support horses and other animals, potentially opening up opportunities for an increase in horse ownership.

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