Hakhyun Nam, co-founder and CTO at i-SENS, Inc. a developer of glucose sensor devices, reveals his path to running a globally successful medical devices company, and how i-SENS overcame early challenges in manufacturing and marketing to establish its reputation within the Korean market. Professor Nam also discusses the factors that are delaying other Korean medical device manufacturers from becoming global success stories.
Soon after founding the company, it became obvious that simply conducting and selling research would be impossible in Korean culture, and thus our company had to develop a product that could generate revenue
