Medical Innovation

<p>1. Preface<br>2. Introduction: The role of innovation in improving health outcomes<br>3. Patent law basics: Strategies for entrepreneurs and start up enterprises<br>4. Business law basics for new businesses<br>5. Navigating federal regulation and FDA<br>6. The role of university technology transfer<br>7. Can innovation occur in a rural setting<br>8. Licensing medical devices to manufacturers<br>9. Understanding health industry venture capital<br>10. An introduction to the national Institutes of Health SBIR/STTR programs<br>11. Avoiding common mistakes<br>12. Medical device clinical trials<br>13. Managing institutional barriers to physician entrepreneurship<br>14. Conflict of interest and the "pharmaphobia" narrative<br>15. Accelerating physician entrepreneurship: Perspective of a recently graduated medical student<br>16. Accelerating physician entrepreneurship: Perspective of a trainee entrepreneur<br>17. Preparing America’s entrepreneurial workforce: Reinventing the medical curriculum<br>18. A Dean’s Perspective on Entrepreneurship in the University<br>19. An Editor’s perspective on publishing entrepreneurial submissions<br>20. The role of foundations and professional medical societies in fostering medical innovation<br>21. Lessons from a serial entrepreneur<br>22. The CFO as the customer in the process of market adoption in the operating room <br>23. Technology adoption: Appealing to hospital and health system value analysis<br>24. Technology adoption: Appealing to payers and capturing economic value<br>25. Expanding the entrepreneurial workforce<br>26. Epilogue</p>