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GRANTEE OUTCOMES:GLOBAL HEALTH COMMERCIALIZATION
CUGH MONTREAL NOVEMBER 2011
National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance
Catalyzing Innovation for faculty
$$ for courses, programs entrepreneurship education training networking
Catalyzing Innovation for students
$$ early stage funding business strategy training & mentoring investment
IT CAN BE DONEIT’S HARDTECHNOLOGY IS THE EASY PART
Credit: Krista Donaldson, D-REV
Leverage
Freedom
Chair
Mashavu
Global Health Innovations
Health Innovations
WHITIA Northwestern University
affordable digital X-ray and telemedicine
not-for-profit social venture
www.whitia.org
BRILLIANCEStanford University
Phototherapy device that
uses blue LEDs to treat infants with jaundice affordably in low-resource settings
www.d-rev.org/projects/brilliance/need.html
ONEBREATHStanford University
Low-cost ventilator for
developing world & emergency use
SPROXILDartmouth College
www.sproxil.org
Cell phone technology that instantly
confirms medicine brand genuineness
Sproxil is a company
INFANTAIRRice University
a continuous positive airway
pressure system (CPAP)
infantAIR is a company
www.infant-air.org
AYZH INTERNATIONALColorado State University
Sheba Water Filter
Clean Delivery Birth Kit
For profit
www.ayzh.com
SANERGYMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Prefab toilet & bicycle-powered exhaust system
For profit micro-franchises + central processing to convert waste into biogas, electricity, and fertilizer
http://saner.gy/
LEVERAGE FREEDOM CHAIRMassachusetts Institute of Technology
a level powered wheelchair for rough terrain
nonprofit (GRIT) in partnership with Whirlwind Intl. & Jaipur Foot
mlab.mit.edu/lfc/chair.html
CHALLENGES
radically lowering COSTS DESIGNING for cultural, social, political
contexts defining & validating a MARKET creating innovative BUSINESS MODELS finding the right PARTNERS
MORE
accurately assessing needs navigating regulatory approval & IP raising funds again and again creating team continuity finding a manufacturer distribution, branding, marketing, sales, support scale
IT CAN BE DONEIT’S HARDTECHNOLOGY IS THE EASY PART
