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First Minister Opens Optoelectronics Packaging Center
June 7, 2004 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
Edinburgh, Scotland — A leading-edge design center that will provide a critical link in the commercialization of Scottish micro and optoelectronic research has been officially opened by Scotland's First Minister Jack McConnell.
McConnell was visiting Optocap Ltd. in Livingston where university spin-outs, researchers, start-ups and established companies can access facilities and services to develop and test their research to market-ready status.
Established by Scottish Enterprise and jointly funded by ERDF aid, Optocap's center provides a major boost for Scotland's growing optoelectronics industry. It specializes in the development of processes to arrange delicate circuitry in the protective packaging that allows optoelectronic devices to interface and connect to external networks via optical fibers and electronic connections.
Optocap will develop these solutions for devices used in the communications, consumer, industrial and automotive sectors. It will also create packaging solutions for emerging technologies such as life sciences where the biochip will play an increasingly important role in the diagnosis of illness and the management of its treatment.
The center is being developed in conjunction with the industry body, the Scottish Optoelectronics Association and will bridge the gap between design and manufacturing of devices.
By taking advantage of Optocap's expertise and investment in first-class lab and testing equipment companies will be able to focus on device development while reducing risk and time-to-market.
Based at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, Conjunct Ltd., is using the center's facilities to help develop an optoelectronics device that will address the inherent deficiencies of electrical buses by using a serial optical bus.
Established in June 2003 by Scottish Enterprise to provide a critical link in commercializing university-generated IP and creating/sustaining high-growth potential start-ups, Optocap is jointly funded by Scottish Enterprise and the European Regional Development Fund for three years, after which it will be spun-out as a commercially independent organization. For more information, visit www.optocap.com.