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India's Intellectual Property-Based Biomedical Start-Ups


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1 Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology, Biotech Park, Electronics City Phase 1, Bengaluru 560 100, India
 

I have posed 50 questions each to the founders of 50 young Indian biomedical firms that are less than five years old. The questions were on the following themes: the backgrounds of the founders and their employees, the area of work of the company, its location and incubation experience, its funding and expenditure, its IP and licensing, its clients, and its risks and challenges. Several are doing pioneering work and the overall picture is impressive. The country should become a source of appropriate, high quality and affordable biomedical products and services in a few years.

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Biomedical Firms, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Start-Ups, Venture Capital.
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Gayatri Saberwal
Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology, Biotech Park, Electronics City Phase 1, Bengaluru 560 100, India

Abstract


I have posed 50 questions each to the founders of 50 young Indian biomedical firms that are less than five years old. The questions were on the following themes: the backgrounds of the founders and their employees, the area of work of the company, its location and incubation experience, its funding and expenditure, its IP and licensing, its clients, and its risks and challenges. Several are doing pioneering work and the overall picture is impressive. The country should become a source of appropriate, high quality and affordable biomedical products and services in a few years.

Keywords


Biomedical Firms, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Start-Ups, Venture Capital.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv110%2Fi2%2F167-171