This is a cross-post from my LinkedIn newsletter. Feel free to join the conversation there or post your thoughts in the comments below. The U.S. National Library of Medicine’s PubMed indexes over 36 million biomedical research abstracts – a searchable trove of evidence that has been available to the public since 1996. It is both a national […]
Champions
Patient-led innovation
Update: Here’s a link to the list I created based on the comments gathered here and on Twitter and LinkedIn. I am curating a list of organizations that are putting patient-led innovation to work. What follows is an incomplete list — please help me by sharing YOUR favorite peer-to-peer communities in the comments below. Extra […]
Champions fast-track innovations
Champions help take a scrappy patient-led idea to scale. They give Seekers, Networkers, and Solvers access to resources held by mainstream institutions such as funding, media attention, regulatory guidance, or access to labs and manufacturing facilities. Champions fast-track innovations. This is the fourth post in a series that I’m writing to introduce the archetypes of […]
Consumer-strength tools,
industrial-strength innovation
On August 31, I’ll be part of the 2021 Federal Wearables Summit. This post is my attempt to “flip” the event by sharing what I intend to say. Please let me know what you think in the comments below. In 1986, Eric von Hippel of MIT identified “lead users” as people who identify and solve […]
Inventing the future
If you want to meet the future faster, go out to the edges of your field of vision. Find out what pioneers and rebels are doing and learn from them. Sometimes that means taking a virtual helicopter ride up to the zenith of tech development, as I did recently, watching Dario Gil, SVP and Director […]
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