SOPE is a global biomedical and health innovation network helping doctors get their ideas to patients and markets

1. Arlen D Meyers, MD, MBA
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Founding President and CEO, www.sopenet.org

2. •Rising health care costs
•Access
•Quality
•Stressed innovation pipeline
•Disenfranchized and disempowered physicians
•Globalization
•Lack of bioentrepreneurship knowledge, skills
and abilities
•Lack of early stage money
•Lack of opportunities to get experience

3. Associate
Question
Experiment
Observe
Network
http://hbr.org/2009/12/the-innovators-dna/sb2

4. Education
Experience
Connections/Mentors
Cash
Resources

5. Culture celebrating innovation and
entrepreneurship
Structure and connectedness outside of
the bureaucracy
Process and metrics that reward success
Innovators

6. The Society of Physician Entrepreneurs
(www.s0penet.org) and linkedin group, is a
NFP global biomedical and healthcare
innovation network . Members include
healthcare entrepreneurs, investors, service
providers, and industry representatives

7. The mission of SoPE is to help biomedical
and healthcare entrepreneurs get their
ideas, discoveries and inventions to market
by providing them with education ,
connections to service providers and
investors and offering value added products
and services.

8. Sope U is an online learning platform
SoPE Chapters offer monthly educational and network events
Partnerships with others offering meetings, seminars, etc
SoPE Summit
Collaborations with International Business Schools
CU Program in Bioinnovation and Entrepreneurship

9. Working with local technology transfer offices or industry
SoPE Innovation Scholars Program
Acclerators like HealthStartZ in Denver

10. 3000 people on linkedin group
Extensive social media network
SoPE Box Radio
SoPE Newsletter
SoPE Website at www.sopenet.org
Monthly Chapter meetings

11. Connections to early stage investors
Collaborations with TIE Rockies, National Association of Seed
and Venture Funds, Rockies Venture Club, and other
international angel networks
Crowd funding intermediary?
SoPE Capital Mangement ?

12. • 2800 global members on linkedin and website
• Growing at 150 members/month
• Chapters in Nigeria, India, Turkey, San Diego,
Colorado, St Louis, Wash/MD/ N VA and
growing to 20
• SoPE Affinity Partners Program
• SoPE Innovation Scholars Program with
Acclarent

13. Wells Fargo
Bank of America
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
Acclarent/Johnson and Johnson
Medvoy
HSBC Bank

14. •SOPE promotes the program to members
and co-manages the program
•Industry partner hires Innovation Scholar
for 6 months /1 year
•Designed to expose IS to different aspects
of life science technology commercialization
•Expectation is that IS will pursue
technology commercialization interest ,
teaching and research

15. •Helping members connect to HNW investors and angels
•Connecting members to bioengineers and contract
manufacturers
•Finding C-suite talent
•Connecting to international supply chains and marketing
channels
•Facilitating technology transfer
•Helping with IT development

16. •Expand membership to 10K
•Expand network of global chapters
•NFP c(6) and c(3) SoPE Educational and Research Foundation
•Accelerate global biomedical and healthcare innovation
•Expand ISP program
•Expand SoPE Affinity Partners Program
•Enhance US global competitiveness in biomedical innovation
•SoPE U
•SoPE Magazine
•SoPE Meetings with other organizations
•SoPE Consultants: The SoPE Brain
•SoPE Capital Management/Crowd Funding Intermediary?

17. Arlen Meyers, MD, MBA
ceo@sopenet.net