Excerpt From
BioDesignThe Process of Innovating Medical Technologies
by Paul Yock, Josh Makower, and Stefanos Zenios
Cambridge University Press, 2010
IDENTIFY --> INVENT --> IMPLEMENT
THE 6 STAGES of MEDICAL DEVICE DEVELOPMENT1) Identify -- Needs Finding
strategic focus, need statement2) Identify -- Needs Screening
disease state, treatment options, stakeholder/market analysis, needs filtering3) Invent -- Concept Generation
ideation, brainstorming, concept screening4) Invent -- Concept Selection
intellectual property(IP), regulatory and reimbursement concerns, prototyping5) Implement -- Development Strategy and Planning
strategy for research/development, clinical use, IP, regulatory, quality, marketing6) Implement -- Integration
business plan, operating plan, financial model, funding sources, licensing
see website www.ebiodesign.org
Quotes to inspire Needs Finding -->
If you want to have good ideas, you must have many ideas-- Linus Pauling, Nobel Prize, BioChemistry
If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.
-- Henry Ford
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