WHAT IS THE INNOVATION PROGRAMME?
The Innovation Programme runs in the second semester and provides you with an opportunity to work in multidisciplinary teams to solve real-life clinical problems. You will hear from clinicians about the unmet needs that they are facing, and learn the key to concept generation and medical device innovation before presenting your solutions to the problems.
It is also a great opportunity to make friends from across the university and to develop your interest in the medical device industry.
THEME: EMERGENCY CARE
A 6-week innovation program with a general theme and 3 unmet clinical needs based on this theme. Participants from different disciplines (eg engineers, medics, product designers, business studies, etc) choose one clinical need and work in teams to brainstorm and research solutions. Then, each team presents their concepts at the end of the program.
INNOVATION PROGRAMME 2021
The theme this year is emergency care and the 3 clinical needs will be in the triage, paediatrics and surgical area.
Here is a full breakdown of each session in the program:
Week 1
(3/02/21)
3 unmet clinical needs introduced to participants by guest speakers. Participants placed into multidisciplinary teams to tackle problem.
Week 4
(24/02/21)
bringing ideas to market, medical device industry & regulations talk introduced by speakers
Week 2
(10/02/21)
concept generation & innovation process introduced by speakers
Week 5
(3/03/21)
teams work independently
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Week 3
(17/02/21)
teams work independently.
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Week 6
(10/03/21)
Dragons Den event. Each team presents to guest speakers and to Spark and the creator fund representatives