What is a Health Innovation Sprint?
Are you an innovator with an idea that can impact healthcare?
Would you like to work with product development specialists, intellectual property attorneys, regulatory experts, health economists and commercialisation experts to further your idea?
Participants of all relevant disciplines are welcome and no specific experience is required!
A health innovation sprint is creative group problem solving within a compact time frame. Teams come together to quickly develop and evaluate new product or service concepts.
Participants typically form groups of about 2-5 individuals including the idea owner and professional advisors such as product development specialists, IP attorneys, regulatory experts, health economists and commercialisation experts, Teams then have a brainstorm as a group, and turn a good idea into a strong business concept.
The event normally begins with project introductions. Participants that bring ideas/projects to the event have the opportunity to briefly explain (5 min max) what they are working on at the start of the event so that professional advisors can join their team. At the end of the event a wrap-up session gives each idea owner the chance to demonstrate their accomplishments and plans for progressing their ideas and projects. One idea owner from each event will be eligible to win a prize which will be assessed by a judging panel and awarded to the idea with the most potential.
Goals/Objectives
Our primary goal in running these events is to kick-start a developer community around new ideas that can impact healthcare. We want to inspire a community to join in the effort to create new health related products and services in partnership with our clinical entrepreneurs/NHS staff.
Suitable project ideas would include medical devices, equipment, diagnostics and digital health technologies.
Recent Events
We recently ran two highly successful Health Innovation Sprints in Cambridge and Norwich on the 17th May 2024 and 7th June 2024 respectively.
These events were kindly being sponsored by our partners: Venner Shipley LLP, JEB Technologies Ltd, Medovate Ltd and eg technology.
You can read the outcome of both events from the link below:
The next Health Innovation Sprint will be advertised here.
Organisations keen to run an innovation sprint in their sector/region can enquire about the support we can offer by emailing enquiries@healthtechenterprise.co.uk.
