Winter 2015/2016 - The Innovation Highway Newsletter | Page 8

2 1 DECEMBER 2015 – JANUARY 2016 The Innovation Highway Features The 2015 GEW Medical Finalists Each year, Global Entrepreneurship Week recognizes some of the most promising new startups from around the world through its Startup Open competition. This year, founders (and founder teams) from 38 countries submitted more than 600 startups for consideration. View the complete list of “GEW 50” startups as finalists identified by the prestigious panel of judges. AventaMed, Cork, Ireland Over 2 million tympanostomy tube (ear tube) procedures are carried out globally each year. It is the most common reason children undergo surgery and general anesthesia with the majority being less than 7 years old. The procedure creates anxiety for children and their families due to the risks associated with general anesthesia. AventaMed has come up with a solution to allow the procedures to be carried out in the doctor’s office, without general anesthesia. FasTouch, Amirim, Israel The FasTouch fixation system is intended for fixation of prosthetic material to soft tissues in various minimally invasive and open surgical procedures such as hernia repairs. FasTouch delivers uniquely designed suture-like fasteners that mimics traditional sutures by providing a closed and locked fixation loop around the mesh and the tissue. It provides superior fixation strength while minimizing the amount of implanted foreign body. Horus, Rapallo, Italy Horus aims to help visually-impaired and blind users to regain their independence. It is a wearable device fitting every kind of glasses. As a personal assistant, it helps the user to have a better understanding of the world around him or her. [email protected]. Be Assured, Halmstad, Sweden Be Assured provides pharmaceutical and medical information in a simple and powerful digital format, thus enabling nurses, doctors and caregivers to administer the right medicine at the right time. BioBots Inc., Philadelphia, PA BioBots is bringing biology into the 21st century by building high resolution, easy-touse 3D bio printers and biomaterial cartridges that are accessible to both researchers at the frontier of regenerative medicine and ordinary people, or bio hackers. 5