Our commercialisation road trip has had many major milestones to travel past.
Our commercialisation road trip to develop the Balance Mat Ian Bergman invented started in 2008. This challenging and lengthy journey involved eight years spent researching and developing a precursor application of the technology before the realisation dawned that postural sway assessment for healthcare and allied health practitioners and researchers was the right road for the technology to go – hence the Balance Mat was born. Given that it can take a new technologies decades and millions of dollars to go from an idea to a fully formed, marketable product (think Pixar, think Disney, think Ed Catmull, Steve Jobs and the 20 years it took to develop computer animation for movies), Ian has actually done very well to develop his Balance Mat system in only the seven years that followed. Below are some of the major milestones along the commercialisation road.