I N N O VA T I O N , I N C U B T I O N A N D

ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN
H E A LT H C A R E

Ms Soumya Kar, Incubation Manager

Yenepoya Foundation For Technology
Incubator
I N N O VA T I O N S ?
I N N O VAT I O N V S C R E AT I V I T Y
ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A journey of self-
e x p l o r a ti o n , b u i l d i n g s o m e t h i n g f r o m
n o t h i n g , a n d c r e a ti n g v a l u e

Startup is a newly created company with a scalable

business model, focused on solving a problem or
fulfilling a need in a novel way.

The pursuit of solving real-world

problems through business. It's about
identifying a need or a gap in the market
and creating a scalable business to
address it.
I N N O VAT I
Innovation can be technological, but it can Radical

ON
Innovation:
also be in business models, marketing Breakthroughs
strategies, or customer experience that
Something novel that has an impact.
fundamentally
change the game
like SpaceX's
reusable rockets.
Sustaining Incremental
Innovation: Innovation:
Enhancements Small, yet
that refine impactful
existing products improvements
and markets, over time, for.

Disruptive
Transformative Innovation:
Innovation: New methods that
Major shifts that create markets
redefine and displace the
industries, Tesla's old, Netflix's
electric vehicles. streaming
services.
 L E T ' S D E M Y S T I F Y :
I N N O V A T I O N
V S . S O C I A L I N N O V A T I O N

Innovation - Something novel that has an

impact.

Innovation is mostly technological, but it can

also be in business models, marketing strategies,
or customer experience

Social Innovation is about the IDEA.

And not just any “new idea.”

For the social sector, social innovation has to

be an idea — in the form of a product, service
or method that focuses on addressing societal
challenges, and improving community well-being
.
H E A LT H C A R E O F F E R S T H R E E W I N D O W S O F
O P P O R T U N I T Y F O R I N N O VAT I O N AT T H R E E
DIFFERENT LEVELS

1. Prevention: Screening for diseases, behaviour change communication, health

awareness and education

2. Provision: Diagnostic and treatment services

3. Protection: Long-term follow-ups, preventing relapses, monitoring patterns.

T Y P E S O F I N N O VAT I O N

• Product-Based Innovations :

The innovation lies in the product itself, which is developed keeping in mind its
affordability, accessibility, and relevance to solving a specific social problem.

LifeStraw addresses the critical need A low-cost, portable infant

for clean drinking water in disaster warmer designed for
zones and underdeveloped areas, premature and low-birth-
significantly reducing the incidence of weight babies in rural areas
waterborne diseases.
Process-Based Innovations : are about creating new ways of
doing things. This could involve innovating in service delivery,
organizational models, or methodologies that lead to social
improvement.

Newborn hearing screener , its

development of a low-cost
hardware-cum-software solution
which screens and diagnoses
AYZH’s core product of JANMA, a Rs 100 clean birth infants with hearing
kit (containing simple tools recommended by the WHO), impairments at an early stage,
helps prevent infection at the time of birth and is helping to using brainstem auditory
reduce both maternal and infant mortality. evoked response.
Transformative Social Innovations :
These innovations aim to address root causes of societal
challenges and bring about significant changes in societal
norms, behaviors, or policies
Built Ice stupas in Ladakh which solves the problem of water
shortages in dry, mountainous regions.
Under The Mango Tree is a hybrid social
enterprise that promotes beekeeping to
increase agricultural productivity and
provides market access to enhance
income and improve the livelihoods of
marginal farmers in India
 ARUNACHALAM MURUGANANTHAM,
Manufactured affordable and hygienic sanitary pads using an innovative machine.

“Everything I made for my wife has now gone global.”

Need Finding Tools Need Screening Criteria

Interviews Market Potential

Ethnographic Interviews
Current solutions In the market

Observations
Quality of current solutions

Brainstorming
Impact of solution per individual
CEDAC
Problem Understanding
Parallel Thinking Need Complexity
Urgency of Problem
Design Thinking

Anticipated Regulation
Shadowing the stakeholder
• Ideation
• Proof of Principle
• Proof of Concept
• Early Stage Validation
• Late Stage Validation
• Pre-commercialisation
IMPLEMENT
• Commercialisation
IDEATE

IDENTIFY
Innovation is a discipline
that can be learned!
 DISCOVERING
O P P O RT U N I T I E S

• Identify your target customers.

• Identify the problem the customer is
struggling to solve.
• Discover any signals the customer is
dissatisfied with the status quo.
• What evidence suggest that it is a real
opportunities.
 BLUE PRINTING
IDEAS

• Draw multiple sources of inspiration to develop

an idea
• Deeply understand the problem you are trying to
solve
• Determine where your idea can be good enough.
• Embrace Business Model Innovation –
understand how a company creates, capture
and deliver value
• Develop a comprehensive blueprint of your idea.
 BLUE PRINTING IDEAS
• Map the pain points of the Target Customer. What job the customer is struggling to get done?
What suggests the job is important and unsatisfied?
• Identify the Key Stakeholders. Who is involved in the decision or the purchase and service? What
are their jobs to be done? Why will they support the idea.
• The Idea. How will the idea ease the customer’s pain.
• The Economics. What revenue will be earned? What will be the cost of earning the revenue, the
infastracture required? The capital expenditures required?
• The commercialization Path. What is the foothold market you will start and how to expand
• Operations: What are the key activities involved
• Team: Who is the team and why you believe that this team has the chance of succeeding.
• Financing: Funds required to execute the plan.
• The Action Plan
 ASSESSING AND TESTING IDEAS

Multiply population,
Identify the biggest penetration, price and
Assess the potential of
assumptions behind purchase frequency to
your idea
realizing the potential. estimate the financial
potential.

Design experiments to
address those Embrace
assumptions.- Test and Experimentation
learn
S O C I A L I N N O VA T I O N I M M E R S I O N P R O G R A M
 Previous SPARSH Programs – 4 Cohorts – 22 Social Innovators

Maternal and Child Health Ageing and Health Food and Nutrition Ageing and Health

Upcoming SPARSH Programs

Public Health Farm to Plate

Orientation and Exposure Selection of Concept Development
Post Need
to the Thematic Area SPARSH Fellows Idea Validation
Selection
Prototype Development

Exposure to the Preimmersion Sessions with Clinical &

Thematic Area Bootcamp Technical Experts

Interactions with Clinicians, Master Classes on Design Thinking, Viable

Public Health Experts, and Business Plan, Market Research, Product
Previous SPARSH Fellows Development, IP and Regulatory

Field Immersion –
PHCs, CHCs, Old Age Homes, Hospitals
and Shadowing Clinicians
Dr. Sumonna Mishra

The Challenge
Annually, more than 10 million pregnant women suffer from preeclampsia
worldwide, with clinical symptoms in the last trimester, making it fatal for
both mother and child.

Innovation
A predictive diagnosis kit for detection of pregnancy-induced hypertensive
disorder- preeclampsia.

Funding Raised - Rs 1.89 Cr

DBT-BIRAC BIG Grant, BPCL ANKUR Grant, MSME, DST-NIDHI-PRAYAS, TATA
TRUST-HARVARD Sai Livelihood Creation
Mr. Kiran V

The Challenge
The effect of maternal and child undernutrition is enormous: 178 million
children under age 5 are stunted; 55 million children are wasted of which 19
million suffer from severe acute malnutrition resulting in undernutrition being
the underlying cause of 3.6 million deaths each year.

Innovation
A formulation for topical delivery of micronutrients, helping in supplementing
required dietary micronutrients.

Funding Raised - Rs 1.4 Cr

Pfizer IIT Delhi Innovation and IP Program (PIDIIP), BMGF Grand Challenges
Canada, MSME
Mr. Ashfaq Ashraf

The Challenge
One of the major cause of maternal death is due to hemorrhage which can be
managed by blood transfusion. Unfortunately there is usually a shortage of
blood supply due to poor management and logistics resulting in wastage of
blood.

Innovation
A smart blood bag monitoring device for safe and reliable blood transfusion in
rural India.

Funding Raised - Rs 50 Lakhs

BIRAC BIG Grant
Mr. Anurag Kyal

The Challenge
Iron deficiency and Anaemia continues to be a major public health problem
with about 50% of pregnant women still anaemic in India. Still there has
been discontinuation and nonadherence to IFA supplementations by the
patients because of their side effects, unpleasant taste & smell and
superstitious beliefs revolving around them.

Innovation
Hydrogel-based, slow-release iron jelly candy, which serves as an alternative for
iron/folic acid (IFA) and Vitamin C tablets.

Funding Raised – Rs. 40 Lakhs

DST Lockheed Martin, MSME, DST-NIDHI-PRAYAS
 Assistive Oral care Device for Dependent Elderly
Received follow on funding of 50 lakhs through
BIG Grant in the 14th BIG Call

Dr. Steward Gracian Assistive locomotary device with EC defecation kit

Received follow on funding of 50 lakhs through
BIG Grant in the 14th BIG Call

Ms. Sruthi Babu

Affordable and assistive care device for osteoarthritic knee.

Received follow on funding of 10 lakhs through
DST NIDHI Prayas prototyping grant

Mrs. Pooja Kumari A portable and cost-effective VR-AI based device for early screening of
glaucoma and other visual defects of elderly.

Mr. Rishi Agarwal

M AT E R N A L & C H I L D An automatic breath counter for
H E A LT H low resource settings

A customizable and economical

motion capture system for Manikantan K V
rehabilitation and physiotherapy of
Cerebral Palsy children

Aashith C A point of care paper-based strip

can detect infectious bacterial
diarrhoea

Manish Kumar Swain

A simple, cost-effective,
biodegradable and wearable
device to detect Premature rupture
A paper based analytical device for
of membrane (PROM)
screening vaginal infections

Madhurima Mukherjee

Tanisha Das
S E L E C T E D P R O B L E M S T AT E M E N T S

Need for early-stage holistic Digitising clinical pathology notes

screening of Alzheimer’s disease in real time for geriatric oncology
data interoperability within the
healthcare ecosystem.

Anwesha Dutta Ghanendra Singh

Lack geriatric assessment platform Medication non-adherence

amongst elderly

Dimple Kumar Kapil Singh Rawat

I M PA C T O F S PA R S H IN NUMBERS

22 ₹ 11 Cr 22 08
Startups Created Follow on Funding Prototypes Patents Filed
Developed

154 23 200+ 27
Mentors Engaged Field Visits Gaps Identified Workshops
W H AT D E F I N E S S O C I A L
ENTREPRENEURS:

1) They fall in love with the problem and not the

solution.

2) They believe no one owns a social solution.

3)They know impact is the bottom line of the social

sector. They don’t rely on innovation and invention
alone; they prove impact and pursue scale — making
them both visionary and disciplined in their
approach.
 Supported by

YENEPOYA TECHNOLOGY INCUBATOR ®

Incorporated on
(A section 8, Not for Profit Company Registered as
Yenepoya Foundation for Technology Incubation)
17th May 2019
 Additive Manufacturing Facility
3D Printers for Rapid Prototyping
with Custom Structural & Functional
parts made of
• Metals (DMLS)
• Powder (SLS)
• Resins (DLP, SLA)
• Thermoplastics (FDM)

3D Modeling and simulation facility

including
• Advanced 3D Scanner
• Design Workbench

Applications
• Medical Implants
• Surgical Instruments
• Exoskeletons
• Medical Simulation & Training
• Microfluidics
• Point of Care - Diagnostics / Devices
 Subtractive Manufacturing Facility
Facilities for the fabrication of custom
structural parts using
• 5-Axis CNC
• 3-Axis CNC
• Waterjet Cutter
• Laser Cutter
• Wire cut EDM
• Vertical Drilling Machine
• Vibratory Polishing Machine
• Deburring Machine
• Shearing Machine
• Power Tools

Applications
• Medical Implants
• Machined parts
• Microfluidics
• Point of Care - Diagnostics / Devices
 Bioprinting/Cleanroom Manufacturing Facility
3D Bioprinting Facility equipped with BSL-II cabinet, CO2
Incubator, Refrigerated Centrifuge and related equipment.

Class 1,000 – Sterile Manufacturing

• Biological APIs – 5 L and 15 L Bioreactors
• Lyophilization and manual filling & packaging

Class 10,000 – Pharma Manufacturing

• Formulations in the form of Capsules, Gels and Creams
• Filling and packaging of capsules and semi-solids

Quality Control and Analytical Facility equipped with

analytical instruments such as HPLC, Viscometer, UV-Vis
Spectrophotometer, etc.

Applications
• Testing of Drugs
• Hydrogel based scaffolds and bioprinting
• Small Molecules and Biological Formulations
 PCB Fabrication and Assembly Facility

The facility can manufacture industrial-

grade two-sided Printed Circuit Boards
(PCB) and PCB Assembly with a semi-
automated assembly line.
Equipment for electronics prototyping,
testing and measurement equipment
such as Mixed Domain Oscilloscopes,
Function Generators, Programmable
Power Supplies, Rework Stations,
Development Boards, etc.

Applications
• Printer Circuit Boards
• Medical Devices
• Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)
 Flagship Programs
Medical Devices Design and Rapid Prototyping Facility Provides innovators and startups easy availability of prototyping
facilities at an affordable price to support commercialisation of novel
Supported by – DBT- BIRAC under National Biopharma Mission (NBM)
products in the area of medical devices and diagnostics.

Early Translation Accelerator (ETA) Transformation of young academic discoveries (publications/patents)

with possible commercial and societal impact into economically viable
Supported by – BIRAC
ventures and technologies with the involvement of industry.
Promoting development of innovative solutions to society’s most
SPARSH Social Innovation Program pressing social problems in the areas of Maternal & Child Health and
Supported by – BIRAC Ageing & Health through a structured 18 months program starting from
a pre-immersion boot–camp to product design and prototyping.
MSME Business Incubator Incubator will act as a hub for innovation activities facilitating and
Supported by – Ministry of MSME guiding development of ideas into viable business proposition that can
benefit society directly and can be marketed successfully.
VA R I O U S F U N D I N G
AGENCIES –
I N N O VA T I O N &
T R A N S L AT I O N
• Mead said that the first sign of civilization
in an ancient culture was a femur
(thighbone) that had been broken and then
healed. Mead explained that in the animal
kingdom, if you break your leg, you die.
You cannot run from danger, get to the
river for a drink or hunt for food. You are
meat for prowling beasts. No animal
survives a broken leg long enough for the
bone to heal.
• A broken femur that has healed is
evidence that someone has taken time to
stay with the one who fell, has bound up
the wound, has carried the person to
safety and has tended the person through
recovery. Helping someone else through
difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead
said."
• We are at our best when we serve others.