Patient Innovation is an online platform, www.patient-innovation.com, aimed at facilitating the sharing of solutions developed by patients and caregivers. In 4 years, over 1600 innovations were submitted (and about 850 were “screened” and approved by their medical team) from a community of 60.000 patients/caregivers from the 5 continents. Patient Innovation has been named Non-profit Startup of the Year and recognized by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for its contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Building upon Patient Innovation, they are now creating a new platform to help patients/caregivers to improve technically their solutions and find a set of resources necessary to commercialize them, so more people can benefit from them. The ultimate aim of the is to empower patients and their caregivers to collaborate, co-create and innovate and create an ecosystem to facilitate patient innovation and entrepreneurship. In this talk, Pedro will explain how they have built the “largest deal-flow of medtech in Europe” and provide several examples of innovations developed by patients.
Pedro Oliveira is Professor of Healthcare Innovation at Copenhagen Business School, Associate Professor at Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics (Leave of Absence) and Academic Fellow at the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures. He is the Founder and President of Patient Innovation (www.patient-innovation.com). At Católica-Lisbon he served as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, Academic Director of the Lisbon MBA, and Director of the doctoral program in Technology Change and Entrepreneurship. He was also an International Faculty Fellow at MIT Sloan School of Management. He received his Ph.D. in Operations, Technology and Innovation Management from the U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed additional advanced training at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx