• Question: How did you end up with this idea?

    Asked by A_Lozano03 to Chris, Gina, Jack, Laura, Tom, Yetty on 16 Jun 2017.
    • Photo: Tom Rooney

      Tom Rooney answered on 16 Jun 2017:

      None of what I work with now was my idea. The engineer who had the original idea 46 years ago owns the company and is a multi-millionaire; so if you have a ground-breaking idea that can be commercialised, protect it then get the right people around you to get it out there.

    • Photo: Yetunde Kolawole

      Yetunde Kolawole answered on 16 Jun 2017:

      Hi Lozano,

      In research, you try to think of topics that are relevant because you want your work to matter and it’s common knowledge to telecommunication engineers that with more people using social media and owning more than one smart device, we need to do something quick before everything crashes. This is the motivation for my work. I’m not the only one working on it, there are people in other universities too because ideas fly around

    • Photo: Laura Walker

      Laura Walker answered on 19 Jun 2017:

      A lot of my Idea’s are combinations of other peoples ideas – just looked at in a different way.

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  • Photo: Tony

    Tony commented on :

    For me, it was being in an operating theatre, identifying (that’s the creative bit !) what appeared to be an obvious problem that and finding a solution through engineering and materials technology. The basic ideas that I developed turned into something much bigger and resulted in the formation of a company to exploit the main idea and other associated spin-off’s. What I mean by that is a medical implant may require special surgical instruments and several other supporting systems, including the development of a delivery catheter. Most of the medical thing I do are aimed to improve patient care: instead of making large incisions, a catheter is used to deliver something beneficial through tiny incision; this is known as minimally invasive surgery.