Needs-based innovation: the biodesign process
Author:
- Paul YockPYPaul Yock
Open Access
- 12 December 2014
- journal article
- Published by BMJ in BMJ Innovations
- Vol. 1 (1) , 3
Abstract
Over the past decade, however, a focus on needs-based innovation has emerged as an alternate strategy for medical product development, particularly in the domain of biomedical technology (medical devices and diagnostics). Influenced by the spread of design thinking across campuses and corporations alike, innovators are beginning to focus on developing a deep understanding of clinical needs as the starting point of the invention process.1 The mantra for this biodesign process is that “a well-characterised need is the DNA of a great invention.”2Keywords
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