Ep_9 - Dr Diana Siew - MedTech Innovation For Long-term Success

Dr Diana Siew is the Strategic Partnerships Lead for the Bioengineering Institute and the Co-Founder of the Consortium for Medical Device Technologies (CMDT).Twelve years ago, there was not much in the way high-value Medical Research commercialization - publicly-funded research was sitting idle, and international companies were bypassing New Zealand in favor of other countries. Dr Siew has been pivotal in growing New Zealand's capacity in Research Commercialization, particularly in the realm of Medical Technologies (MedTech).Join us in Episode 9 where Diana and I discuss why the CMDT was started, the importance of screening-out bad ideas early, how the ABI/CDMT achieve high rates of success, opportunities for the next 12 years....and much much more.You can find out more about Diana, the ABI and CMDT:https://www.linkedin.com/in/diana-siew-05139310/https://www.linkedin.com/company/auckland-bioengineering-institute/https://www.cmdt.org.nz/