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CASE STUDY
MTEM: A patent success 
Edinburgh Research and Innovation helped the academics at MTEM Ltd to patent discoveries that use multi-transient electromagnetism to analyse subsurface deposits of hydrocarbons. Assistance was provided to win support of £200,000 from the Scottish Enterprise Proof of Concept Scheme. Once this was complete a company was formed, a highly experienced CEO was recruited from the oil services industry, and the University licensed the technology to the company. Less than three years later MTEM Ltd was bought for $275m by Petroleum Geo-Services of Norway, with the company retaining this important part of its operation in Edinburgh. 

MTEM founders (left to right) - Leon Walker, Anton Ziolkowski, Bruce Hobbs, David Wright 


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The University of Edinburgh is ranked EdinburghÕs Medical School, the ¥ Alba at Livingston in West Lothian

in the top six in Europe, alongside  Queens Medical Research Institute,  
Cambridge, Oxford and three in  the Scottish Centre for Regenerative  
London. Significant public investment  Medicine and a new 870-bed NHS  
for the future is continually underway  teaching hospital.  
across the Edinburgh Science Triangle,  
currently including the creation of  ¥  Easter Bush near Roslin in  
Edinburgh BioQuarter, a landmark  Midlothian to the south of  
£600m life sciences research and  the city centre is home to the  
commercialisation development; the  animal health research consortium  
Easter Bush Research Consortium  including the Moredun Research  
(EBRC) at Roslin, one of the largest  Institute, the Roslin Institute,  
groups focused on the biology and  Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary  
health of companion and production  Studies, and the Scottish  
animals in the world; and the new  Agricultural College; with adjacent  
£42m purpose-built Informatics Forum  commercial space at Pentlands  
at the University of Edinburgh.  Science Park, BioCampus  
biomanufacturing park and  
Key locations and clusters within  Roslin BioCentre.  
the Edinburgh Science Triangle:  
¥  Edinburgh Technopole is the  
¥ EdinburghÕs city centre is home to  University of EdinburghÕs multi- 
the universityÕs main city campus  sector science park set in stunning  
and the dedicated science and  parkland at Easter Bush, beside the  
engineering campus known as  Pentland Hills.  
ÒKings BuildingsÓ, the new  
Informatics Forum and also to  ¥  Heriot-Watt Research Park at  
Napier University.  Riccarton is EdinburghÕs largest  
science park co-located with Heriot 
¥ Edinburgh BioQuarter offers an  Watt University, adjacent to the  
optimum destination for biomedical  strategic development location in  
research-based companies wishing to  West Edinburgh and just minutes  
co-locate with the University of  from the airport.  

accommodates numerous indigenous and global technology companies requiring space for larger design, manufacturing and logistics operations as well as the Alba Innovation Centre, the Institute of System Level Design and the new Innotek Centre. 
¥	East Lothian is the new home for Queen Margaret UniversityÕs campus-by-the-sea and important research locations at Elvingston and Elphinstone. 


Did you know?

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The 18th century also saw Edinburgh as the centre of the ÒScottish EnlightenmentÓ when philosopher David Hume and economist Adam Smith published work which has literally 
shaped todayÕs world. 
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