Startup Marblar to breathe new life into unused technologies

A startup that offers monetary rewards to those who come up with the ways how to use existing proprietary technologies that have not found their application will be launched in England. Running at full strength Marblar.com site is planned for the end of August this year. The project’s partners are willing to pay to ? 10K for a successful idea.

According to the project leader Daniel Perez, the goal of Marblar is to try to breathe new life into a large number of worth inventions, gathering dust in the universities. According to NewScientist, the resource has received support from several UK universities, from the Medical Research Council and the Council for Scientific and Technological equipment.

The first task which was presented by Marblar to its users was the connection method of DNA nucleotides without the use of enzymes, which was patented by the University of Southampton. A few days later a representative of Cambridge University proposed the use of technology to find a suitable variety of DNA-therapy. At the same time the inventor of this technology did not even know that there is such problem and that his technology can be applied in the area offered by Cambridge’s scholar.

Worth noting that there are several sites like Marblar and their goal is a renewed interest in scientific research and invention. For example, a resource ArticleOne offers people to find a prototype of an invention to prove that it had come sooner than somebody patented it.

Innocentive site, for example, offers people to solve the problem of their customers directly - they are given a task, for the solution of which people pay money. Sites IbridgeNetwork and Yet2 helping inventors to find companies that agree to license the technology for future commercial use.