At CapeRay we have been meticulous in protecting our intellectual property (IP) rights by regularly filing for patents and celebrating the […]
Posts Tagged ‘Research Grant’
Angels in the Crowd
When an entrepreneur has a novel idea for a medical device, her biggest challenge will be to secure the necessary […]
Turning Discovery into Health
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has its origins in a one-room laboratory in New York City in 1887 and […]
Cape Town Company Develops Covid-19 Test Kit
Five years ago, CapeRay joined a consortium of local manufacturers to establish a not-for-profit company called the Western Cape Medical Devices […]
Who Gets the Credit?
A patent provides protection to the inventor for 20 years, during which period the patent owner has an exclusive right […]
Incentives for Publications
We are all familiar with the aphorism, “Publish or perish,” challenging academics that unless they publish in reputable journals their […]
The DBT Pioneers
Digital breast tomosynthesis – DBT – has its origins in Holland in the 1930s when the neuroradiologist and electrical engineer George Ziedses […]
Mothers of Invention
We are all familiar with the proverb, “Necessity is the mother of invention,” the origins of which are attributed to Aesop’s Fables […]
Impact of Covid-19 on Breast Screening
It’s the first week of October, the month when the colour pink highlights the efforts by society to remind women […]
Professor and Entrepreneur
Twenty years ago, I published a commentary entitled “The professor as entrepreneur” in which I reflected on my decade as an academic […]