Improving Workforce Skills: Supporting Australia’s Growing Medical Device Startup Sector

The Medical Device Partnering Program (MDPP) is an ideas incubator, established in 2008, with the ambitious goal to make Australia the fastest country in the world to take a medical device to market. The program has been connecting with start-ups in Adelaide and now Victoria to develop their cutting-edge medical devices and is now expanding its services nationally across Australia with the support of MTPConnect’s REDI initiative! We hear from MDPP Director Professor Karen Reynolds and Innovations Manager Stephen Blakeney on the workforce skills gap they are seeing in the medical devices sector, their Online Capability Directory that identifies and connects innovative companies working in this space and they share some success stories of startups that have been through the incubator.  If you have a problem, an idea for a solution or even a working prototype for a medical device, contact MDPP at https://mdpp.org.au/.