Dr. Aiden Flanagan is a R&D Fellow in the Corporate Research organisation of Boston Scientific and is based in Galway, Ireland where he leads exploratory development teams to create new growth products for Boston Scientific. He has extensive experience innovating and developing technologies for the design and manufacture of minimally invasive medical devices, including mechanical, optical, software, and electronic technologies. He is also skilled at statistical analysis, experimental design, and intellectual property generation. Aiden has built up an extensive knowledge of innovation processes and recently designed and implemented a global innovation process for Boston Scientific. He has currently 50 patents in medical devices and technologies. A major part of Aiden’s responsibilities are in open innovative activities for BSC where he has set-up and manages most of the EU funded projects including AMCARE, DRIVE, InSilc, BioImplant, UWIPOM2, BRAV3, and DELIVER. He also manages collaborative projects with Universities including NUIGalway through the Bioinnovate initiative and CURAM centre for medical devices, and facilitates academic placements onsite in BSC funded by Science Foundation Ireland. Aiden obtained a BSc in Experimental Physics & Mathematics from NUI Maynooth, MSc in Optoelectronics from Queens University  Belfast and PhD in Experimental Physics from NUI Galway.