What Specialties tend to attract Entrepreneurs/Innovators?

[libertyyne]

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What Specialties tend to attract Entrepreneurs and innovators be it drug or device design, opening businesses, or going on to lead organizations. Are there fields that tend to attract these people? Are there fields that are more conducive to this behavior? What makes these fields attractive to said group of people?

 

[LoGo]

Any specialty an engineer chooses to go into.

 

[libertyyne]

Any specialty an engineer chooses to go into.

Do the go into a specific specialty more often ?

 

[LoGo]

Do the go into a specific specialty more often ?

Cardiology, rads, ortho are the ones that most of my engineering colleagues were interested in. A few also went derm, plastics, ophtho which of course all have business elements too, and some to PMR for orthotics/prosthetics, NeuroSx and some others went IM. Where there’s a problem, an engineer will find it and fix it, so we do scatter across specialties based on interests (and for example if our backgrounds are more mechanical, electrical, chemical etc that plays in).

 

[efle]

surgical or interventional stuff

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

My school has a medical innovations interest group I’m in. I can poll them if you want lol.

It seems like the ones who are pretty active in it from the class above mine are interested in surgery of some sort.

 

[Dro133]

I think with AI/ML being big now, any field is conducive to this type of work. Device-wise, sure, surgical specialties and maybe IR would be your best bet, but AI can be applied to any specialty that has data (which is all of them). There are several start-ups in my chosen field of pathology that are working on creating digital pathology solutions and image analysis algorithms.

 

[OnePunchBiopsy]

Cosmetic Plastics

 

[crunchywhit]

Don’t forget vascular.

 

[allantois]

Dentistry

 

[Mad Jack]

Ortho for the people that like making equipment, psych for the people that like starting their own practices