Confessions Of A Serial Entrepreneur: A Conversation With Alfred E. Mann

In an interview, physicist turned medical-device inventor Alfred E. Mann describes the activities of several medical technology enterprises with which he is engaged. Several of them are companies that he formed; one is a nonprofit foundation, the Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Biomedical Engineering,...

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Published in:Health Affairs 2006-05, Vol.25 (3), p.w104
Main Author: Coye, Molly Joel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biomimetics
Brain research
Cochlear implants
Costs
Disruptive innovation
Entrepreneurs
FDA approval
Generic drugs
Health care expenditures
Innovations
Mann, Alfred
Medical equipment
Medical technology
Pain
Pharmaceutical industry
Regulatory approval
Spinal cord
Startups
Technological change
Transplants & implants
University research
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Summary:In an interview, physicist turned medical-device inventor Alfred E. Mann describes the activities of several medical technology enterprises with which he is engaged. Several of them are companies that he formed; one is a nonprofit foundation, the Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Biomedical Engineering, founded to establish research-oriented institutes on a dozen university campuses and support their work in developing marketable innovations. Mann discusses the need to consider the cost implications of technology, in the context of US health system reform, and describes several important innovations that have emerged from his companies over the years.
ISSN:0278-2715
1544-5208
DOI:10.1377/hlthaff.25.w104