While good ideas alone are not enough to make a successful device entrepreneur, they are an essential place to start. And when you are a physician-inventor who can seemingly generate an endless supply of your own ideas, so much the better. That describes Amir Belson, MD, in a nutshell. When the Israeli-trained physician came to the US to do a fellowship at Stanford, he had 64 ideas for inventions jotted down in tiny Hebrew letters on a single sheet of paper.
Since the early 2000s, Belson has translated his natural inventiveness into a successful company creation model that has produced a...