Medical Technology Entrepreneurship: The Case Study to Produce Customized Prosthesis

摘要

The objective of this paper is to present strategies and practices adopted by the Federal University of Technology to support technology based emerging enterprises to the community. In this perspective, seeks out to depict the main differential, as the insertion of emerging enterprises to the infrastructure of research and extension, allowing to aggregate researchers according to regional singularity and field of excellence. The methodology applied was the case study, presenting a set of determined strategies and practices implemented to aid the development of emerging enterprises. The paper presents the results of the development of technology based enterprise in the medical field, in the stage of pre-incubation, whereby the focus is customized molds to produce prosthesis for cranioplasty applied in the surgery of reconstruction of broken skull caps due to accidents or disease. The complexity faced by the emerging enterprise, considering the product developed involves, apart from the use of medical technology of tomography, images of patients, to model 3D of prosthesis and construction of mold by additive manufacturing, must comply with legal and medical ethics. It is still worth noting that the product has important social impact, as it will destined to patients attended by public hospitals of the country.