As surgeons, most of our ideas involve new devices rather than new drugs but it could be a new smart phone application or computer program to improve our day to day practice. The purpose of this paper is to encourage the reader to act ..... not be one who later tells friends “I thought of that, but didn't have the time/money to develop it”.
The process starts with understanding what you need that you do not have or, as important, how to do the same thing at less cost. Since I practice in the United States, the rules of developing a new product will be different than in Japan. But the principles are no doubt similar. Does it do a better job? Easier to use? Lower cost? Nothing like it available?
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