Invitation | About the Meeting | Agenda | Attendees | Hosts
INVITATION
The Biomedical Engineering – Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship Alliance (BME-IDEA) represents 95 participating institutions in North America. Since 2003, BME-IDEA has held one-day working meetings wherein “best practices” of different university programs involved in innovation, design, technology transfer and entrepreneurship in biomedical engineering education are shared with the community.
As IDEA programs are beginning to emerge internationally, it seems timely to convene a day-long planning workshop to extend the BME-IDEA internationally. To this end, the one-day workshop will be held in Galway Ireland June 13-14, 2013.
Since this is intended to be a working meeting, we hope to keep the numbers of attendees small. On the other hand, we would like to ensure EU countries with active training programs in medical device innovation and entrepreneurship have the possibility of sending a representative. We are contacting you to request your help in identifying an appropriate invitee. We will very much appreciate a timely response. Please note that, while there will not be a registration fee for the workshop, all travel expenses are to be paid by each attendee.
We expect several US BME-IDEA representatives will be in attendance including Paul Yock (Stanford) and Jack Linehan (Northwestern) A draft meeting agenda will follow. As one aspect of the workshop, we expect attendees to prepare 5 – 10 minute “innovation snapshots” highlighting their most novel/innovative developments in graduate-level, experiential-learning courses in medical device innovation, and participate in a panel discussion. The snapshots will be collected and mounted on a new BME-IDEA INTERNATIONAL web site to motivate design/innovation/entrepreneurship education initiatives in BME programs worldwide.
Please tell us if your program is interested in participating. Send contact information to Jack Linehan, linehan@northwestern.edu. More information to follow.
ABOUT THE MEETING
Goal: To convene a one-day, active-participation workshop to share ideas and experiences among faculty and other interested colleagues who are involved in training students to more deeply understand and become competent in the medtech space related to design, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Rationale: Innovation is gaining traction within the university setting, particularly in the medical device space. Students can be exposed to the innovation process (inventiveness put to use) through multidisciplinary, experiential learning. At the same time, information technology is radically changing education. Thus, it is timely to gather interested faculty to explore “what works” in this changing environment.
AGENDA
| Thursday 13th June | |
| 19:30 | Welcome Dinner in Marina’s Restaurant, The Radisson Hotel |
| Friday 14th June | |
| MORNING SESSIONS | |
| 08:00-08:30 | Welcome, Introduction, Mark Bruzzi, Jack Linehan, Paul Yock |
| 08:30-10:00 | Session I Entrepreneurship and Product Development in EU and US University Programs “Introduction snap shots” (Max. 2 minutes) of relevant initiatives/activities at attendees institution.
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| 10:00-11:30 | Examples of Established Med Tech Training Programs Each of the following Universities will present (in 8 minutes max.) on their programs
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| 11:30-12:00 | Discussion |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| AFTERNOON SESSIONS The Following Sessions are ‘Round Table Discussions’ to get the views and insights of all attendees. |
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| 13:00-14:00 | Session 2 Students / Trainees, Target Outcomes Who do we teach? – What outcomes should we expect? – What does success look like? This session discusses the background of students and subsequent issues relating to biases based on culture, ideal backgrounds, level of education, methods of attraction and evaluation of prospective students. The target objectives of training these students and the measurement of success for students/trainees/funders and universities alike will also be discussed. |
| 14:00-15:00 | Session 3 Identifying clinical needs/Inventing Solutions/Implementing plans What do we want to teach? – How do we teach / enable learning? In this session, methods of uncovering, investigating clinical needs, ideation, creativity, brainstorming and business planning will be discussed. This session will focus on what topics should be taught, what teaching materials are available for faculty and students in the medical product design space, and how learning is best enabled. The discussion will also examine the involvement of industry and clinicians external to the university in training programs. |
| 15:00-15:30 | Tea / Coffee |
| 15:30-16:30 | Session 4 Expert Panel Discussion Panel: Joey Mason (Delta Partners), John O’Sullivan (ACT Venture Capital), John O’Dwyer (European Manager NSAI), Ian Quinn (Founder Creganna Tactx)A panel discussion about what gaps in knowledge / challenges exist in identifying opportunities and development of early stage enterprises.The panel discussion will include: what students/trainees should understand about what it takes to successfully fund early-stage companies. In this session, the challenges and obstacles of the transition of innovators from a training environment to an innovation lead project / enterprise are explored. Also to be discussed is how students / trainees can best be equipped / prepared for this transition. |
| 16:30-17:30 | Wrap up Discussion, Conclusions, Follow up items |
| DINNER | |
| 20:00 | Dinner in Kirwan’s Lane Restaurant, Kirwan’s Lane. |
ATTENDEE INSTITUTIONS
| Aalto University, Finland Biocat, Spain Bio-X, Denmark Bogazici University, Turkey Cardiff University Charite Project Delta Partners, Ireland Gent University, Belgium IHU Strasbourg Imperial College, London Johns Hopkins KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Northwestern University |
NSAI (National Standards Authority Ireland) NUI Galway Politechnico Di Milano Stanford University Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland University College Cork University of Bristol University of Geneva University of Heidelberg University of Limerick University of North Carolina/North Carolina State University University of Strathclyde |
HOSTS
Bio Innovate
Stanford Biodesign