Commercial Impact
The following companies, or divisions of international companies, have been created directly or partly from NTH research and influence, including its contract research arm SINTEF with spin-offs:
- 3d-Radar AS (advanced ground penetrating radar technology for shallow subsurface mapping in 3D)
- Atmel Norway (inventors and designers of the Atmel AVR RISC microcontroller family, incl HW/SW tools) (Norwegian)
- Ceetron AS (3D visualization and technical computing for oil & gas, plus aerospace, automotive, and consumer electronics)
- Cybernetica advanced process control, specializing in nonlinear model predicitive control
- CorrOcean (industrial/off-shore Corrosion Monitoring)
- ErgoRunit AS (outsourcing services in IT system planning/administration and accounting) (N)
- Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) (inter/intranet search engines; developers of alltheweb.com)
- GE Vingmed Ultrasound, formerly Vingmed Sound (ultrasound-based imaging in medical diagnosis and surgery support systems) (N)
- Marine Cybernetics, specialising in the testing and verification of ship and offshore structure control systems (N)
- MARINTEK, The Norwegian Marine Technology Research Institute, including MARINTEK (USA), Inc.
- Nordic Semiconductor ASA (ASIC design, SoCs, RF/mixed-signal hybrid IC's)
- Oceanor (oceanographic measurements and real-time environmental monitoring in oceans, freshwater, and soil)
- Powel ASA (IT products/services for energy production companies)
- Q-Free ASA; formerly Micro Design AS (radio systems for tolling, traffic information, parking, ticketing, access control, logistics)
- Schlumberger Information Solutions Trondheim, formerly VoxelVision AS (3D visualization, mostly for oil & gas applications)
- SINTEF, The Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research at NTH (contract research corp, 1700 employees)
- SINTEF Energy Research, SINTEF Petroleum Research, and SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture ²
- Sinvent Ltd., SINTEFs development and investment company
- Sun Microsystems Trondheim; formerly ClustRa Systems (high-availability, real-time database technology)
- Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies AS; acquired Systems in Motion AS (3D visualization software)
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