Daniel Green delivers BmEA's 2016 prestige lecture on medical device innovation

Dr Patrick Finlay shares highlights from the Biomedical Engineering Association's annual prestige lecture.

The BmEA annual prestige lecture this year was given by Daniel Green on 12 April at 1 Birdcage Walk.

Daniel, formerly an FT columnist and is CEO of medtech start-up Yaqrit, as well as Principal Fellow in Entrepreneurship in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College.

Daniel was invited to talk about the practical requirements for getting a medical device from initial concept, through development and regulatory approval and into commercial production and sales.

Daniel took us on three journeys through the development pathways he had personally led as a serial CEO with different start-up companies, each with different potentials, different problems and resulting in different outcomes.

Clear common factors for success emerged, some relating to the development process and some relating to leadership – in particular setting an appropriate culture in a new organisation.

This was a fascinating insight into the less-publicised 'downs' of medical device innovation as well as the oft-trumpeted ups.

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