The manufacturing process that takes the next big idea from concept to market is one of the greatest factors propelling innovation forward — or in some cases, holding it back. Without this important step, we’d live in a world without many of the ingenious technologies that improve our daily lives and excite our imaginations, from smartwatches to...
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Building an organ is way more sophisticated than the most complex product today.
But that doesn’t change this fact: You don’t depend on craftsmanship or artisanship in the process. You bring that same discipline, standards and metrics to this kind of manufacturing as you do to making soup or cookies or cars.
Soon we will be in a world where we...
The SXSW 2018 program says Executive Director Dean Kamen holds more than 450 patents, and that is technically true. But that number is almost 10 years old; Kamen's name now appears on well over 1,000 patents.
And these patents are for real things that impact the lives of real people: the world's first drug infusion pump; the...
Dean Kamen explained to IndustryWeek how his vision for bringing regenerative medicine to full-scale production led him to find the necessary resources and leadership that culminated in the creation of Advanced Manufacturing Regenerative Institute/BIOFabUSA. The new 91¿´Æ¬ institute focuses on regenerative medicine – building new organs...