MINJU (the gray matter) is a venture development platform for global minds from leading universities, healthcare systems and corporations to collaborate on research, commercialization and trainings in a physical and digital settings for new innovations thereby creating pathways for venture development leading to entrepreneurship and employability.
Minju helps to structure a multidisciplinary program for innovations, considering most of the times innovation is perceived as one of two ends of the spectrum: either as the invention or as the actual product or service. The propriety framework is an innovation process to move an idea to an actual outcome through venture development process of thinking, ideating, innovating, implementing and nurturing.
Core ideaIt is built around research-based intellectual property, market demand or an economic or consumer pain point. The crux is need for a central thesis
CustomerEvery business requires customers. Venture development process is to identify, understand and solicit customers, which creates a pathway for scalability
PeoplePeople make ideas successful. Venture development process emphasis on organizational development plan to identify strong team members and recruiting them.
Strategic partnersFor a new venture every relationship is strategic which can help in the long-term success of the venture.
SuppliersIn a new venture development suppliers are key stakeholder. They should believe they are creating a important customer, thereby becoming important allies.
PlanningBusiness plan is the beginning but resource planning and development plans are key to execution.
CapitalIt is a chicken and egg story. You need business before you can attract capital and you need capital to build business
Long TermAcceleration is great, but speed also kills. Venture development is a tortoise strategy where slow and steady wins the race. Long term and sustainability matters
Minju cultivates the mindset of stakeholders to understand internal needs, capabilities and constraints, while at the same time grasping external factors such as intellectual property protection, investment mechanisms, and legal and regulatory boundaries. Innovation is a lean function but it is diverse and collaborative and require understanding of design, legal, it, marketing and finance. The innovation and venture development process should also make one understand the risk-reward relationship between the investment of time and resources. That means understanding of objective analytical processes to quickly critique new opportunities and identify possible winners. Minju platform has application in one-person start-up company, multinational corporations, or nonprofits including universities and health systems.
MINJU Lab engages in cutting edge RESEARCH to find solutions to some of the pressing problems related to human, health & habitat by bringing multidisciplinary teams from MINJU resources consisting of partner institutions.
MINJU brough together a multidisciplinary team of researchers & experts between Henry Ford Health MI, USA and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) , New Delhi, India with background in technology, clinical & analytical skills to work together to accelerate the pace of discovery for early detection of pancreatic cancer, resulting in a chance for patients to live longer with higher quality of life. Currently, only approximately 20% of patients are found early enough for curative treatment, leaving approximately 80% of patients with non-curative options.
MINJU overall goal of this collaborative project, was the need of general practitioner (GP)/family medicine (FM) education in India. As identified in a landscape analysis conducted by the research team , there is a need to develop a core foundation for generalists in undergraduate training, post-graduate specialization in GP/FM, and GP/FM accredited courses . GP/FM education reform is an essential component of strengthening healthcare in primary and secondary facilities.
MINJU Marketplace partners institutions to create pathway for COMMERCILISATION of research with participating corporates or startups.
Obesity is not just a problem of “girth control”. It is now considered a chronic disease by the American Medical Association. It is not just a weight problem: it can have serious effects on a person’s physical, metabolic and psychological health. Henry Ford Health System licensed its 500 health recipes, 250 of which were heart smart to Idiom System a corporate partner of i4, which has developed an AI, based platform to monitor, manage people health and lifestyle through machine learning techniques & also included 1400 Indian recipes for better outcomes for the algorithm.
Geography should not dictate the standard of care for medical therapy. Today, millions of people lack basic access to quality medical care due to geographic and financial limitations. The ability to manage these cases from afar can have a profound impact on patient and financial outcomes and can literally be the difference between life and death. MINJU engaged with leading experts in medicine, communication and equipment technology between its institutional partners in USA and India to create this cost effective solutions of virtual care covering preventive healthcare, emergency care, ICU management, tele-medicine.
Diabetes mellitus refers to a group of diseases that affect how your body uses blood sugar (glucose). The underlying cause of diabetes varies by type. But, no matter what type of diabetes you have, it can lead to excess sugar in your blood. Too much sugar in your blood can lead to serious health problems. GLUCASE is designed to natively support two-way SMS, email, fax, telephone, in-app message, and video chat. The system is been designed by significant IP and proprietary protection of the design.
10 million people have tuberculosis globally. More people die to TB than any other infectious disease including HIV-AIDS. 50% of the treatment is ineffective due to drug resistance and currently there are 19 drugs for TB. Aarogya AI is developed by MINJU Resources as an AI enabled saas platform for rapidly diagnose drug resistance tuberculosis. The AI does a DNA sequencing of bacteria infected patient. The DNA is uploaded to Aarogya AI drug susceptibility status report.
MINJU Classroom brings partner institutions faculty to design & deliver innovative TRAINING programs to participating institution faculty & students.
This course will cover aspects of starting and growing a successful global venture. Some of the specific topics covered include: deciding to be a global entrepreneur, coming with the best global idea for the venture, evaluating and selecting the best global market(s), and launching and growing the venture.
The course in Disaster Management will include identification of risks, organizational preparedness, equipment planning, disaster education and training for disasters owing to Mass gatherings, Tsunamis, Hurricanes, Acts of terrorism, Industrial accidents, Environmental disasters The specific topics which will be covered are:
Healthcare Innovation & Entrepreneurship is designed to provide innovators the ability to value a given technological advance or intervention holistically, focusing on issues that extend beyond technical efficacy and include patient and practitioner value propositions, legal and intellectual property protection, business modelling, potential market impacts, market competition, and ethical, social, and healthcare practitioner acceptance. Upon completion of the course, the student will be prepared to: