Dr. Yousef Taktak MBA is an Innovation Specialist / Health and Life Sciences – Greater Manchester Business Growth Hub. He is a scientist with a PhD and an MBA, and an industrialist with significant business experience at senior level in start-ups, university spin-outs and SMEs in health, medical and life science-based companies. Yousef has the experience in developing innovative technologies, from ideas through development, to commercialisation, in order to improve patient care. This pathway involves strategic and business planning, critically assessing and analysing gaps in the market, including funding to develop innovative products and services to fill these gaps, and thereby successfully entering the market.