Project description
A prescription for healthcare innovation
Healthcare providers are under pressure to improve services, but face numerous challenges (rising costs and an increase in chronic diseases, as well as an ageing population). While much of the focus is on hospitals and clinics, traditional healthcare frameworks also need to foster the development of innovative health solutions. In this context, the EU-funded HealthEConnect project will explore how educational establishments and training providers can play an increasingly important role in developing an entrepreneurial spirit and driving innovation. It will strengthen cooperation between two innovation ecosystems: one in Portugal and the other in Denmark. HealthEConnect will support next-generation healthtech companies through a co-designed, user-centred and entrepreneurial-driven healthtech innovation and entrepreneurship educational offer.
Objective
Rising costs, resource pressures, and an increase in chronic diseases, together with the challenges posed by an ageing population have exerted significant pressure on Europe to improve its healthcare and put forward health-related technological advances. While much has been done inside healthcare institutions (hospitals and clinics) to stimulate innovation, far less has been done outside the traditional healthcare frameworks to foster the development of innovative health solutions. In this context less conventional players, like educational establishments and training providers, have proven to play an increasingly important role in developing an entrepreneurial spirit and driving innovation. Nevertheless, the typical science education curriculum (including the medical curriculum) does not integrate any instruction on innovation or entrepreneurship which leaves a gap. Hence, there is a strong need for education offers that can equip future health innovators with particular mind- and skillsets and with the capacity to shape tomorrow´s healthcare. To respond to the unmet need, several health care innovation and entrepreneurship education and training offers with novel, real-life approaches involving ecosystem members, have emerged in the past years both in (e.g. in Denmark) and outside Europe. In order to close the innovation gap across Europe, it is critical to foster the best practices and innovation resource flows between ecosystems at different development levels. HealthEConnect will strengthen the cooperation between two innovation ecosystems: the healthtech innovation ecosystem of the Lisbon region (PT) and the one of Hovedstaden (DK), to support the rise and growth of next-generation healthtech companies through a co-designed, user-centered and entrepreneurial-driven healthtech innovation and entrepreneurship educational offer launched in Lisbon capitalising on best practises and platforms to sustain collaboration and resource flows between ecosystem members.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- social sciences economics and business business and management innovation management
- social sciences economics and business business and management entrepreneurship
- natural sciences biological sciences ecology ecosystems
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.3.2 - European innovation ecosystems
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HORIZON.3.2.3 - Joint programmes close to innovators
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HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-01
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1099 085 Lisboa
Portugal
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