Forbes August 29, 2019
In tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal (available now online), I review Make, Think, Imagine, a new book by engineer and former BP CEO John Browne that’s a paean to engineers and engineering. The review, written for a general audience, stands on it own, but Browne addresses several themes related to technology and translational that are likely of particular interest to biomedical entrepreneurs, and seemed worth a closer look:
- The power and responsibility of engineering
- The challenges of technology adoption
- The (dismal) state of health
- The continuum from basic to applied research
Power and Responsibility of Engineering
Browne’s basic thesis is that engineering, as a whole, makes the world a better place, generating “innovations that allow us to solve our...