Pneuma: entrepreneurial science in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic - a tale of industrialisation and international cooperation

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2021

Authors

José Baptista Mendonça (Author) FEUP; Nuno Cruz (Author) FEUP; Daniel Vasconcelos (Author) Other; Carla Sá Couto (Author) FMUP; António P. Moreira (Author) Other; Paulo Costa (Author) Other; Hélio Mendonça (Author) FEUP; Ariane Pereira (Author) Other; Zakaria Naimi (Author) Other; Vladimiro Miranda (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: JIM: Journal of Innovation Management

Vol. 8 No. 4

Pages: 3-25

ISSN: 2183-0606

Publisher: Universidade do Porto. Faculdade de Engenharia

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Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00T-FFZ

DOI: 10.24840/2183-0606_008.004_0002

Abstract (EN): When the COVID-19 pandemic hits Portugal in early March 2020, medical doctors, engineers and researchers, with the encouragement of the Northern Region Health Administration, teamed up to develop and build, locally and in a short time, a ventilator that might eventually be used in extreme emergency situations in the hospitals of northern Portugal. This letter tells you the story of Pneuma, a low-cost emergency ventilator designed and built under harsh isolation constraints, that gave birth to derivative designs in Brazil and Morocco, has been industrialized with 200 units being produced, and is now looking forward to the certification as a medical device that will possibly support a go-tomarket launch. Open intellectual property (IP), multi disciplinarity teamwork, fast prototyping and product engineering have shortened to a few months an otherwise quite longer idea-to-product route, clearly demonstrating that when scientific and engineering knowledge hold hands great challenges can be successfully faced. © 2021 Journal of Innovation Management. All rights reserved.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 23