The international search is on for a high flyer in the world of microelectronics to drive the University's newest spin out company AMCET in the quest for a slice of a market worth $30 billion globally.
Launched last month at a high profile ceremony by Minister of Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Henry McLeish, the company - which is a partnership venture with the Scottish Enterprise Network - will exploit the commercial potential of advanced materials research by Professor James Cairns and Dr James Thomson.
Describing their work as "sensational science" University Principal Dr Ian Graham-Bryce told the 80 assembled guests from the commercial, academic and government sectors: "The cluster of radical new technologies stemming from their work could revolutionise the international microelectronics industry and form the basis of the manufacture of the next generation of electronic devices."
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