Applications invited for Fellowship in Healthcare Entrepreneurship 2019

Fellowship title: Applications invited for Fellowship in Healthcare Entrepreneurship 2019

Deadline: 15^th April 2019

About Us

The Foundation for the Center for Healthcare Entrepreneurship, is sponsored by two IIT Bombay alumni, and is focused on making universal healthcare a reality. The Center’s objective is to catalyze healthcare innovation to bring about affordable solutions to address healthcare needs of India. The Center hopes to foster entrepreneurs to deliver a pipeline of cost-efficient solutions, which are increasingly ‘commercialized’.

This program aims at bringing together engineers, clinicians, entrepreneurs and the business community on a single platform to design and innovate in the field of healthcare, biomedical devices, and services to create a social impact.

Outcomes

Entrepreneurs, products, companies in the field of Healthcare

The Curriculum Highlights

• The curriculum focuses on biodesign innovation through a structured plan of Product development containing
• Clinical immersion to identify the unmet needs
• Needs filtering and Needs Statement development
• Ideation and brainstorming to develop solutions to the problems
• Implementation: Product Prototyping, Design, Validation
• Regulatory aspects and Intellectual Property
• Business plan development and Strategies for marketing
• The fellows get exposure to experts from the clinic, medical device industry, entrepreneurs, IP/ legal and safety and regulatory experts.
• Hands-on training on 3-D rapid prototyping for quick designing of products, validation of ideas etc
• A basket of technology electives from IITH to bridge the gaps in expertise related to the project
• The fellows get training on how to form startup /new ventures and writing a business plan for their startup and proceed to incubate the companies
• The fellows would present a workable prototype of their idea and present the business plan at the end of the program leading to a startup and pitching to VCs

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