Patient centricity and cultural nativity are at the core of the GCL and guide the creation of transformational technologies, new business opportunities, and contribute to innovation ecosystem development.

GCL work will focus in four clinical areas: brain, cardiovascular, kidney, and infectious disease. Our combined expertise, principles, and clinical focus areas converge in Affinity Groups

Through collaborations that integrate diverse expertise and organizations, GCL orchestrates new health innovation-driven enterprises in communities where they can achieve early traction and enables them to later scale in the general marketplace.

Community focus

The overarching thesis of the Global Cocreation Lab responds to the question of how a research university can collaborate horizontally in a community, helping to advance its economic fabric and human condition. The focus on Miami-Dade County is our answer.

Precompetitive collaboration

Healthcare innovation through entrepreneurship is a moral imperative that is best realized in an environment where resources, knowledge, and experience are collectively pooled for the betterment of a community. This framework allows for collaboration in projects that do not define the partners’ individual competitive advantages. This principle of precompetitive pooling created the Japanese ASIC market, the Taiwanese contract manufacturing market, and the Chinese chip foundry market.

Socially responsible entrepreneurship

Disruption is a common theme across those taking business risk today. The Global CoCreation Lab frames disruption in the context of its impact on those disrupted, by creating new opportunities for those that become redundant by the displacing effect of new technologies.