Our project is enhancing innovation in bioengineering by creating a sustainable global network of university and corporate partners for the experiential education of new talent for the bioengineering workforce and improved translation of new bioengineering knowledge to products and services. The two major themes are "upstream innovation" and "globally distributed design." Upstream innovation is the concept that parallel, early interaction between business, scientific, engineering, legal, and marketing components can positively impact the level of innovation. Upstream innovation is being implemented by the creation of integrated Capstone Design teams, student internships at companies of varying size and maturity. Our global bioengineering network is viewable the global bioengineering network
Powering Web 2.0 solutions that accelerate bioengineering research, education, innovation.
300 organizations.
44 countries.
6 continents.
open innovation
global collaboration
next-generation workforce
online contact book
real-time communication online at
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5 International internships (2009 and 2010)
126 industrial internships with 52 companies
Facilitates new person-to-person links
Accelerates BME education research & innovation
•International corporate internships
•Multi-university design projects
•Capstone incubators for translational knowledge
•Enhanced access to corporate markets
Raises the awareness of the field globally
Increases productivity and improves human health & dignity
•Experiential education of bioengineering talent for the workforce Enhanced translation of bioengineering knowledge to products & services in the clinic
•Researchers find one another, establish new points of contact & new collaborations
•Students find internships anywhere around the world, with the intent of getting better hands-on, immersive experience in their formative training
•Faculty and students to create collaborative project workspaces to foster innovation
•Faculty and students get their latest ideas/technologies into the mainstream to enhance translation of research into products and services
Diana Burk spent part of the summer at the
Max Planck Institute in Freiburg, Germany.
She helped test a new mouse model for a deadly form of brain cancer.
1. Free, global exchange of data & knowledge (including ideas, problems, solutions, etc.) across traditional barriers
(corporate/university, geographic, etc.), enabling crowd-sourcing and open innovation
• How does EU and Asian bioengineering design differ from
U.S. education? The differences define opportunity!
•What would motivate companies to post key needs/ & market –pull concepts?
•Invested in web functions before all proof-of-concept completed
•International idea exchange, despite I.P barriers
•Allowed all partners to join – no filtering
•No preferred sponsor location - site organized by people and ideas
•Devices and biologics
•Arts, economics, architecture, sciences, and engineering
•Process engineering (Six Sigma) vs. “upstream innovation”
2. New corporate internships for the experiential education of next-generation workforce
3. A first-of-itskind “high net-knowledge network” that can be easily adapted to other disciplines
1. Securing agreements with corporations to post/share challenges or problems for community-based input
Charlottesville, VA
2. Broadly publicizing the professional network
3. Striking a balance between network content, functionality, and usage
Winner 2009 poster competition. All interns in the program prepare a poster and present it at a symposium to share their collective results.
•Key driver for the “Global Network” concept
•See BMEplanet’s “Idea” spaces to play
•Open innovation allows users to define own goals and partners
•Value proposition follows emerging partners, not pre-defined
•Rapid social network allows group intelligence to selfassemble, globally
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The device shown in the picture was the 1st prototype of the LED- transmission based microscope. It will eventually be used for automated diagnosis of TB in poorly developed countries by examining sputum samples. Internship in Cape Town, South
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