Junna Kunii
are by nature entrepreneurs although wedon’t typicallythink of ourselves in this manner.A gap exists innursing provider knowledge on theprocess and pathwayto medical devicedevelopment. This talk will the highlightthepathways to production that are required andsuggest partnerships that are little known to careprovidersto facilitate device development. Thistpresentationoutlines the steps and stages ofdevice development fromprotecting intellectualproperty to licensing and manufacturingtheproduct. This will provide a guide for thoseinterested,who have ideas for medical devices orimprovementson current devices. Very limitedliterature isavailable on the entire process and asthis area is not onetypically taught in nursingprograms, a knowledge deficitis present forpotential inventors or entrepreneurs.Thedevelopment process will be brought to lightand offersuggestions on common areas wherestumbling blockspersist, such as funding andlicensing in the later stages of
