シリコン・バレーを使って患者へ届く製品化・事業化を目指すJapan Biodesign

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Biodesign process consists from three phases; Identify, Invent & Implement. 7 months has passed since the 2015-2016 Japan Biodesign fellowship started. Currently, fellows are working on Invent and Implement phases. As Dr. Tomas J. Fogarty said in Biodesign textbook, “An idea, by itself, has no importance whatsoever; it is the implementation that idea and its acceptance by others that brings benefits to our patients.”

The purpose of the Implement phase is to create a multi-year plan for developing concepts into real product that improve patients' lives and is attractive to providers and payers to continue projects after finishing fellowship. We still have much to learn from Silicon Valley about combination of medicine, engineering & business because they have a lot of cases and roll models for young entrepreneurs.

I believe Japan Biodesign fellows will find ways to implement ideas of young entrepreneurs they identified and invented in Japan with utilizing the resources in Stanford & Silicon valley where medical device startups can develop technologies.