Great show for Tanaka Business School entrepreneurs!

Tanaka Business School team takes the 2nd Runners-Up spot in a prestigious European business plan competition

The School is delighted to extend its congratulations to the 'Stick Safe' team for winning the 2nd Runners-Up Prize in the European Business Plan of the Year Competition 2007 at SDA Bocconi in Milan. Comprising of Imperial MBA students and Entrepreneurship Design Fellows* the team presented their business plan for an innovative and highly cost-effective medical device that protects clinical staff from needle-stick injuries, and responded to fierce questioning with aplomb. 

Needle-stick injuries, when doctors and nurses inadvertently stab themselves with infected needles, can result in the transmission of infections including Hepatitis B, C and HIV, and cost healthcare organisations world-wide over €7 billion each year.  The 'Stick Safe' device - a patented and recyclable paper-pulp tray with a disposable tab into which used needles are safely and conveniently inserted - will reduce the frequency of those injuries by over half, and will have application in both developing and developed markets.

* Entrepreneurship design fellows are students of the joint Imperial/RCA Industrial Design Engineering degree course who attended the MBA Entrepreneurship elective