Health Entrepreneurship

<p>The potential for health professionals to learn and practice the process of entrepreneurship to improve the quality of health care and services is enormous and untapped. Health professionals witness first-hand where changes to the health system should be made and where opportunities for improvement arise, yet they are seldom associated with entrepreneurship. </p><p>Incorporating the authors’ experiences leading health systems, working on the front line and supporting corporations, NGOs and accelerators that target health entrepreneurship, this book explores:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>The why, what and how of entrepreneurship – and intrapreneurship – for health professionals.</li> <p> </p> <li>Resources to encourage innovation by guiding the reader through an idea development process specific to the experience and working environment of health professionals.</li> <p> </p> <li>The areas of need, developing ideas and prototype solutions, as well as implementing, scaling and pitching entrepreneurial ideas.</li> </ul><p>An accessible and applied guide, <i>Health Entrepreneurship</i> introduces ideas about the practical delivery and implementation of entrepreneurial ideas, allowing readers to affect necessary and positive change.</p> <p>1. Introduction to Entrepreneurship </p><p>2. Building Blocks</p><p>3. The Creation Flow</p><p>4. Sensing</p><p>5. Visioning</p><p>6. Prototyping</p><p>7. Scaling</p><p>8. Pitch</p><p>9. Access to Capital</p><p>10. Conclusion: Go Get ‘Em!</p>