UTEK Corporation (AMEX:UTK - News) (LSE-AIM:UTK), a leading innovation services company focused on technology transfer, and World Energy Solutions, Inc, (OTCBB:WEGY - News) an energy services company and electronics manufacturer, are pleased to announce that World Energy Solutions, Inc. has acquired Advanced Alternative Energy, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of UTEK, in a stock transaction.

Advanced Alternative Energy, Inc. has negotiated a worldwide exclusive license to a device that can separate water into its component elements of hydrogen and oxygen. Thin metal oxide films have been developed in a laboratory at Florida State University for the purpose of improving the efficiency of water electrolysis. The films have demonstrated the ability to generate both hydrogen and oxygen near their thermodynamic limits, thus potentially allowing for very high efficiencies.

“World Energy Solutions is enthusiastic about this technology and its contribution to help expand our proprietary position in alternative energy. We believe that the technology has the potential to improve the fuel efficiency of internal combustion engines with the addition of efficiently generated hydrogen gas,” said Benjamin Croxton, Chief Executive Officer at World Energy Solutions.

"UTEK is pleased to consummate this technology transfer with World Energy Solutions," said Joel Edelson, Vice President of Technology Licensing at UTEK Corporation.

About World Energy Solutions, Inc.

World Energy Solutions, Inc. (WES) is an energy services company and electronics manufacturer. WES's primary business focus is the development of technology for lowering electrical, gas and water usage for commercial, government and residential facilities. As a manufacturer of transient voltage surge suppressor systems, WES uses cutting-edge technologies and design standards to provide its customers with full lifetime warranties on its products. For more information about WES, please visit its website at www.wesinc.net.

About UTEK Corporation

UTEK® is a leading innovation services company. UTEK’s services enable clients to become stronger innovators, rapidly source externally developed technologies and create value from their intellectual property. UTEK is a business development company with operations in the United States and the United Kingdom. For more information about UTEK, please visit its website at www.utekcorp.com.

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UTEK's operating results could fluctuate significantly due to a number of factors. These factors include the small number of transactions that are completed each quarter, the value of individual transactions, the timing of the recognition and the magnitude of unrealized and realized gains and losses of companies in its portfolio, UTEK's dependence on the performance of companies in its portfolio, the possibility that advances in technology could render the technologies it has transferred obsolete, the loss of technology licenses by companies in its portfolio, the degree to which it encounters competition in its markets, the volatility of the stock market and the volatility of the valuations of the companies it has invested in as it relates to its realized and unrealized gains and losses, the concentration of investments in a small number of companies, as well as other general economic conditions. As a result of these and other factors, current results may not be indicative of UTEK's future performance. For more information on UTEK and for a more complete discussion of the risks pertaining to an investment in UTEK, please refer to UTEK's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.