Confessions of a serial entrepreneur: a conversation with Alfred E. Mann. Interview by Molly Joel Coye.
In this wide-ranging interview, Alfred Mann describes the activities of several medical technology enterprises with which he is engaged. Several of them are companies that he formed; one is a nonprofit foundation, the Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Biomedical Engineering, founded to establish research-oriented institutes on a dozen university campuses and support their work in developing marketable innovations. Mann discusses the need to consider the cost implications of technology, in the context of U.S. health system reform, and describes several important innovations that have emerged from his companies over the years.
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D001698:Biomedical Engineering; D020811:Biomedical Technology / Q000191:economics*; D016520:Entrepreneurship; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D012109:Research Support as Topic / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States; D014495:Universities