In a bid to expand the talent pool in its burgeoning medtech sector, Singapore has looked to the US West Coast – long regarded as a leading innovation hub in the global medtech arena – for ways to nurture a new generation of commercial-minded innovators. One such initiative is the Singapore-Stanford Biodesign (SSB) program, modelled after the renowned and successful Biodesign program at Stanford University. Tina Tan spoke to Ruey Feng Peh, director of SSB, to find out more about the program and what its outcomes have been to date.
It may be the Asian way, but Ruey Feng Peh appears unduly modest about the achievements of Singapore-Stanford Biodesign (SSB), the innovation training program that he has been involved in pioneering since its inception in 2010.
The key aim of the initiative – modelled after the Stanford Biodesign program launched in 2000 in the...