Challenges in developing lab-on-a-chip devices
1 March 2022
Lab-on-a-chip (LOAC) devices are miniaturised systems that process or test small volumes of liquid. Efforts to develop such devices are…
Springboard offers medical device expertise to tackle COVID-19
24 March 2020
One of Springboard’s three motivations is to help peoples’ lives around the world. The current pandemic of COVID-19 is concerning…
Strategies for faster R&D: Change one variable at a time
27 June 2019
When the Wright brothers were trying to make their great aeronautical leap forward, they didn’t just throw feathers and…
Strategies for faster R&D: High speed video
20 June 2019
When the world’s fastest men competed for the 100m Olympic gold medal in Athens, 2004, four athletes crossed the line…
Strategies for faster R&D: Critical Observation
7 June 2019
Nearly 200 years after its inception, Darwin’s theory of evolution still lives as one of science’s greatest breakthroughs. Yet Darwin…
3 sure steps to faster R&D
21 September 2018
Are you an R&D manager who would like to get your products to market more quickly? You may have suffered…
Nanopatterning for medical applications
6 September 2018
Nanotechnology appears in popular culture as a cure for everything from cancer to balding. In science nanotechnology is an umbrella…
What does ‘rapid’ really mean?
30 July 2018
One of the real strengths of working with a consultancy is the ability to increase the size of your team,…
Consultancy or manufacturer?
12 December 2017
Let us suppose you need a new product developed. You have 3 choices: Develop the product entirely in-house. Contract a…