Innovation in European healthcare – what can Sweden learn? - LIF

Each region has made their own innovation
strategy to suit their specific business environment
Each region have their own
structure and area of focus
within healthcare innovation.
Being TTO’s themselves, the
regions have also established
new sub-TTO’s within their
regions. A few examples are
accounted for, in the rightside
text-boxes.
Region
Northern
Jutland
• Forskningens hus, the science and innovation centre of Aalborg Hospital. Employees
can rent facilities for the early phase of new companies. The centre also have patent
and contract-unit, Further the centre provides help for fundraising.
Region
Central
Jutland
Region
South
Denmark
•MedTech Innovation Center is created with the purpose of
unfolding the potentials in the regions Biotech and Medtech projects
and companies. With an increased focus on implementation of
ideas, inventions and research results, MTIC helps optimising the
”time to market”.
•Velfærdsteknologi.nu is an initiative that functions as a promoter
for entrepreneurship, creating an overview of possibilities for
venture capital. Velfærdsteknologi.nu works as a gathering point
for actors that wish to create expenditure savings through welfare
technology.
Danish regions is the
professional body and
caretaker for the five regions. It
helps distribution knowledge
between the regions, and
helps communication and
coherence across the regions
Capital
Region
Region
Zealand
•mHealth is the regions focus on how to involve the users in their own
patient security. Smartphone's, mobile sensors and Apps, open the
possibility for increased patient security, since the patients can monitor
their own vital data. Region Zealand will be used as a more explicit
example of the regions infrastructure, on the next slide.
•Patients house is a project aiming at enhancing the
involvement of the patient. In doing this, the project
shows how patient involvement can creates value for the
patients themselves and hereby also for the hospitals.
User-driven innovation and PP-innovation cooperation
are keywords in reaching this objective.
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