BookMark S. Cohen, Lillian Kao, editors.
Summary: This book provides a guide to innovation and entrepreneurship within academic surgery and details how these approaches can develop new technologies and programs that advance healthcare. The pathways, barriers, and opportunities for commercialization and entrepreneurship are identified and discussed in relation to licenses, start-ups, and obtaining funding. The book aims to help create a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship across academic medical centres around the world, with the belief that this can improve patient care. This book is relevant to surgeons of all disciplines, as well as medical students and researchers.
Contents:
Developing a surgical innovation: creating a meaningful value proposition and a compelling pitch for impact
Understanding the impact of your innovation: customer discovery
Intellectual property, patents, and conflicts of interest
Navigating the regulatory process
Getting funding for a surgical innovation: opportunities and challenges
Industry-academic partnerships in innovation and entrepreneurship: where is the pendulum swinging?
The biodesign model : training surgeon innovators and entrepreneurs
The shared investment model: partnering a venture capital fund with a department of surgery/health system
Creating an innovation center for surgical devices at an academic medical center
Leveraging multiple schools into a multidisciplinary I & E program at an academic medical center
Improving industry-academic engagement through development of a surgery department contract research organization
Funding engineering/surgical partnerships to accelerate commercialization of institutional surgical innovations: the Coulter model
Creating a multidisciplinary surgical innovations group at an academic medical center to stimulate surgery faculty technology development
Engaging SBIR funding for development of surgical innovations coming out of academia
The partners fund model for accelerating surgical innovations
Training the next generation of surgical innovators and entrepreneurs through a novel innovation pathway and curriculum.