Daktari Diagnostics

Devices & Diagnostics

How low can you go? Creating value with cheap medical devices

...we ask ourselves whether the small emerging med-tech company can achieve success (and funding) with a “tons cheaper” value proposition. In theory, any company starting fresh with design and manufacturing should be able to take advantage of Moore’s law in a way that the big guys with vast installed bases and capital investments can’t. The opportunity for success is there, but not every company or technology is cut out to win at price-cutting.

Devices & Diagnostics

First Stop, Third World: Emerging Markets For Med Tech

...maybe it is time to lift our transatlantic heads up and take in the view of the rest of the planet. While we run back and forth to Europe, clogging our arteries with triple-cream brie, a whole developing world chock full o’ unmet medical needs and experiencing enviable GDP growth goes largely untapped by emerging med tech companies.