🧠There's no way around it: developing innovative dental materials is expensive, especially the kind of which Kulzer’s Christoph Meier dreams. “This is a big difference to other industries,” he says, “in which you often have to deal with strict limitations of costs” and a lot is at stake. Under his watch, Kulzer leverages corporate synergies and economies of scale to do ambitious R&D, yet still brings valuable products to market. Read more about this beautiful mind: https://goben.co/3vEXzfi
This is great to see!
Lawrence Limpoco
1mo
R&D is awesome…. Always a new perspective day to day.
An important insight - thank you! The conundrum here in the professional dental products industry is the pressure to succumb to the circumstances so well illustrated in Clayton Christensen’s 1997 book, The Innovator’s Dilemma. Business and competitive pressures very often cause a myopic focus on existing and “sustaining” product improvement, at the expense of ambitious and higher risk exploration in new technologies for dentistry. Discipline, management’s support, and focus are critical.