Spinout companies

Assessment Micro-Analytics was founded in October 2018 as a spin-out from educational assessment research conducted at UEA. In the company’s first year, it has worked with national governments and some of the world’s leading educational testing companies. Assessment Micro-Analytics uses small-scale, observational data on performance and interaction in computer-based tests, to improve the quality of educational assessment design and the use of test data. The company uses digital techniques of eye tracking, emotion and gesture recognition, and video-ethnography to study real-life testing situations. That information is used to investigate the user experience and to provide detailed insights into test item performance. This innovative approach enhances the quality of data available to those who design and use educational tests. It can help to identify and explain anomalies in test performance, and to improve test reliability and fairness.

Iceni Diagnostics Ltd, founded in March 2014, develops carbohydrate based therapeutics and point-of-care diagnostics for infectious diseases. A major focus for the UEA-John Innes Centre spinout company is the development of its own carbohydrate-based diagnostic platforms for infectious disease. Disease targets include norovirus and rotavirus for human healthcare, as well as avian influenza where the risk of global pandemic is of particular concern. Iceni Diagnostics has received numerous accolades and awards, including a prestigious international Longitude Prize Discovery Award to support the development of a diagnostic device to tackle anti-microbial resistance.

Innovative nanotechnology developed by Professor David Russell, of the University of East Anglia (UEA), and academics from Kings College London offers the ability to simultaneously detect both an individual’s identity and their chemical information (smoking, drug taking, substance handling), simply by taking a fingerprint.

Contract supplier of stable isotope labelled small molecules encompassing starting materials and end products. The emphasis on contract synthesis is informed by their research activities in the use of stable isotopes and their behaviours, as well as core knowledge in the build up of complex structural motifs in the laboratory with PhD qualified staff.

NatureMetrics Ltd is a UEA spinout founded to bridge the gap between molecular ecology research and the frontline of environmental management. Standard environmental surveys are notoriously difficult to carry out because nature is diverse and most species are difficult to detect and identify reliably and quickly. Naturemetrics provides a solution to this problem by carrying out a range of DNA-based environmental services to government bodies and commercial businesses that have responsibilities for environmental monitoring, including to front-line environmental consultancies. The company has set-up business and laboratory procedures to reliably process a large number of samples with rapid turnaround time at lower costs, increasing the effectiveness of environmental management in general.

Founded in 2004, Syrinix is an award-winning leader in providing intelligent pipeline monitoring solutions for clearer network insights.

To publish is 'to make public'. UEA Publishing Project takes that definition as a founding principle, seeking 'to make public' extraordinary work by contemporary writers, artists, critics, researchers and students, from UEA and beyond. The project operates through three imprints, each focussed on different audiences and constituencies: Boiler House Press provides a home for work at the cutting edge of contemporary practice in fiction, poetry and the essay; Strangers Press focuses on literature in translation, often from neglected territories; finally Egg Box - which is run for and by UEA students - publishes anthologies, chapbooks and other interventions, while nuturing the next generation of publishers. Nimble and forward-looking, the Project builds on the outstanding legacy of critical and creative work that has long been UEA's hallmark, forging a reputation locally, nationally and internationally. In so doing it confirms that UEA is indeed a place 'where literature happens'.

Weatherquest is a privately owned weather forecasting and weather analysis company based in Norwich and located on the University of East Anglia campus, that can provide a wide variety of bespoke weather products to large corporations and individuals alike.