In Biodesign, systematically identified medical needs are solved by inventing and implementing new biomedical technologies.
Developed at Stanford University, Biodesign aims at improved medical care by providing a novel entrepreneurial program to selected interdisciplinary teams and by creating new businesses. After initial training, the team is immersed in a clinic for 4–8 weeks to observe its processes. The team’s sole task during immersion is to identify 100–200 needs that have not been optimally met. After immersion, the team will brainstorm and analyze these needs in order to determine the most important and solvable ones. Eventually, one need will be chosen and a solution developed for clinical use and commercialization.
During the brainstorming and development phase, the team will be aided by a network of mentors, coaches, and stakeholders: clinicians, patient group representatives, scientists, engineers, IT experts, designers, and entrepreneurs. Depending on the technical or medical problem at hand, volunteer experts are asked to participate in some of the brainstorming sessions, to be held at the Meilahti Innovation Center in Helsinki. One or two teams will participate in Biodesign training in each year; most of them are expected to lead to commercialization either in startups or existing companies.
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BIODESIGN FINLAND FACULTY
Risto Ilmoniemi
Aalto University
We will offer an exciting, challenging, and potentially highly rewarding
educational experience to talented,
energetic, and innovative individuals with great ambition.
Visa Honkanen
HUS
In Biodesign, we bring together the young talents in technology and medicine to innovate in a real-life clinical setting. We expect nothing less than breakthroughs
Paavo Kinnunen
Aalto University
Biodesign inspires collective creativity for resolving important medical issues in an unprecedented manner.
Risto Renkonen
University of Helsinki
Biodesign helps us to turn our thinking on health care. So far it has been only an expense but now we can rethink it also as an investment.
Olli Vuola
Aalto Ventures Program
Biodesign is a world-famous concept that helps to start up successful ventures in biotech. This is due the fact that you’re spending a lot of time with the customer, identifying their problems, not just solving them.
Jaakko Nieminen
Aalto University
Biodesign is an innovative path to find commercializable solutions supporting startup founding.