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Some personal stats: Entrepreneurship growing among healthcare professionals
via Healthonomics by Luis Pareras M.D., Ph.D. on May 03, 2008
Some quick thoughts today about entrepreneurship in healthcare. Every year thousands of healthcare startups are created around the world. Unfortunately, only a small percentage of healthcare professionals participate in the process. Why?
Two years ago we started a program in the Barcelona Medical Association (COMB) to support entrepreneurship among healthcare professionals (biotech, medical devices, services). I saw one entrepreneurial idea every two weeks.
Today, after two years, I’m seeing one idea per day… Physicians are getting used to entrepreneurship, they are finally learning the language of innovation. Healthcare professionals are tired of innovating and seeing their ideas exploited by others. They want to capture the value they generate (and I am so happy about it).
But there is so much potential to capture. For the industry to achieve its full potential we need to attract even more physicians and healthcare workers to the task. As I said in another post, we need more culture, more analysis, and more investments. But the trend is so clear to me. You can take my word for it… Entrepreneurship among healthcare professionals is here to stay!Shared by: