Basel Area Business & Innovation

To build a successful biotechnology startup, your science needs to be waterproof, your commitment has to be at a level of 100 % and you'll need financial support. The road to securing funding starts with your pitch deck.

If you invent something and want to sell it and make a profit there is no way around one major topic: protecting your intellectual property, short IP. Without protection, anyone who is not you can use and sell your invention, too. As a scientist researching molecules, IP protection is a different field. You might know it's important but do you know where to start?

The future of health has already begun – but where does it lead us to? Patricia Gee is director of the future of health initiative at Deloitte Switzerland. We have talked to her about the drivers and barriers of the future of healthcare. In our podcast episode, you will also learn how highly she thinks of Basel – and about her home team, the Chicago Bulls.

The Basel Area Business & Innovation podcast introduces you to startup founders, experts, and innovators from the region. We talk about what it takes to be successful and grow your business here.

Already when he was young, he was driven to create and invent. Today, at the age of 33, Gwenael Hannema is the CEO of the Jura medtech startup InnoSpina which develops novel implants and surgical instruments to simplify spine surgery.

In this episode of the Basel Area Business & Innovation podcast, Gwenael Hannema talks about the bumpy road his startup is navigating and his experience with another enterprise that did not go as planned. He also explains why a good idea is by no means enough to succeed with a startup and he draws parallels to aviation.

The Basel Area Business & Innovation podcast introduces you to startup founders, experts, and innovators from the region. We talk about what it takes to be successful and grow your business here.

Gwenael Hannema est Jurassien d’origine et connaît pour ses études, son travail et ses voyages la moitié du monde. Aujourd'hui, il est à nouveau installé dans le canton du Jura et, à 33 ans, il est le directeur de la startup medtech InnoSpina qui développe de nouveaux implants et instruments chirurgicaux pour simplifier la chirurgie de la colonne vertébrale. Dans ce podcast, Gwenael Hannema explique pourquoi il est important pour lui que sa startup travaille avec des entreprises jurassiennes, ce qu'il attend du canton pour renforcer l'industrie medtech jurassienne et quels sont ses projets pour l'Amérique du Sud à l'avenir.

As a CEO of a medtech startup looking for funding, you need to do two things extremely well: make sure your scientific ground is as solid as a rock and convince investors of the potential. Marija Plodinec is mastering both to perfection. The physicist by training runs the Basel based medtech company Artidis with passion and compassion.

Marija also explains why she wants to contribute to bringing more women in leadership positions. And she tells you what the best holiday looks like for her.

In the Basel Area Business & Innovation Podcast we talk to entrepreneurs, researchers, experts and CEOs from the Basel Area about how scientists become entrepreneurs, what it means to start a business, why it pays off and why the Basel Area is the ideal location.

Im Basel Area Business & Innovation Podcast laden Martin Jordan und Annett Altvater Hörerinnen und Hörer ein, spannende Persönlichkeiten kennenzulernen, vielversprechende Startups zu entdecken und dabei viel über die Vorzüge der Region Basel zu erfahren. Den Podcast gibt es übrigens auch auf Englisch.