Patient Innovation: The untapped source of breakthrough ideas

Innovation doesn't always start in corporate R&D labs.
Sometimes it starts in a living room, a hospital bed or with
someone who has no other choice than to solve their own problem.


In this episode Dr. Giordano Koch speaks with Pedro Oliveira,
Dean of Nova School of Business and Economics and one of the
world's leading researchers on patient innovation.


Pedro shares why patients, families and caregivers often become
extraordinary innovators, how thousands of life-changing
solutions have emerged outside the healthcare system, and why
many of these innovations never reach the people who could
benefit from them.


Together they discuss why necessity creates exceptional
innovators, what companies can learn from patient innovators, how
communities accelerate innovation, why crises such as COVID-19
dramatically increased innovation speed. They talk about the rise
of patient entrepreneurs, how AI is transforming patient
innovation and healthcare, and why organizations should pay much
more attention to users than they currently do.


Our guest on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/poliveira1/


Our host on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/giordanokoch/

Chapters
00:00 Introduction: Why Patient Innovation
Matters


04:49 Extraordinary Patient Innovators & the Story of Be My
Eyes


14:43 From Patient to Entrepreneur: Bringing Innovations to
Market


25:02 Communities, Crises & Why Need Accelerates Innovation


44:24 AI and the Future of Patient Innovation


54:03 Future Research & Pedro's Secret Source of Innovation