Anne Vivian-Scott (Kinarm)

Show Notes

In this episode, recorded pre-pandemic, Ms. Anne Vivian-Scott shares the story of Kinarm. 

Kinarm is a Kingston, Ontario based company, founded based on research from the laboratory of Dr. Stephen Scott, at Queen’s University that sells robotic instrumentation to help researchers around the world assess patients with brain injuries (e.g. stroke, traumatic brain injury and neurological disease).

Key advice from Anne in this episode:

• How to recruit talent and form a high-functioning team
• Listen to your customers to define your product development and commercialization roadmaps
• Kingston, Ontario is a great location to build a health technology company

Follow Kinarm’s story on social media: @KinarmLab

Learn more about Kinarm: https://Kinarm.com/

Past present supporters/partners of Kinarm: Queen’s University, Ontario Centre’s of Excellence, IRAP, FedDev/ Ontario Brain Institute, PARTEQ Venture Fund, and Queen’s Centre for Neuroscience Studies. Kinarm has been instrumental in providing funding to Queen’s through Ontario Research Fund.

Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Resources at Queen’s:

• Queen’s Partnerships and Innovation - link
• Dunin-Deshpande Queen’s Innovation Centre – link
• Smith School of Business – Centre for Business Venturing- link

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