Medtronic hunts for new technology around the globe – Interview with Dr. Steve Oesterle

Medtronic takes hunt for new technology to ends of the Earth (FN.com)
When trying to visualize what Dr. Stephen Oesterle does at Medtronic, a baseball analogy helps.
Consider Oesterle an international scout, scouring the planet for new technologies that push the envelope of medical devices beyond what Medtronic does now. In much the same way a baseball scout looks for the next great phenom with a radar-busting fastball, Oesterle travels some 250,000 miles a year to find inventors, companies, researchers and institutions that are developing technologies that could be relevant to medicine and to...