Health-TIES: Accelerating the Healthcare Technology Innovation Cycle

Medical Delta is leading partner in the HealthTIES consortium supported by the ‘Regions of knowledge’ program of the EU. The partnership consists of the Medical Delta partners and the regions of Oxford, Zurich, Catalunya and Debrecen as mentoring region. The Health-TIES consotrium will join the strenghts of these important life science and medtech regions for the improvement of healthcare in the EU, implement best practices throughout the consortium and shorten innovation lead times in these sectors. All regions are represented by their ‘triple helix structures’, i.e. the combination of government, industry and academia in the regions.

 

What is HealthTIES?

HealthTIES addresses Europe's greatest health challenges of the 21st century: an ageing population and the sustainability of the healthcare sytem. Innovation in medical technology has a huge potential to tackle these challenges. There is a lot of health benefit to be achieved by technological innovations such as early and precise diagnosis, targeted treatment techniques with minimal side effects, and methods of disease management. The HealthTIES-challenge is to speed up the cycle of innovation and make the EU a world-class player in health care technology.

Innovations most often arise from regional research-driven clusters of investors, major research universities, technology companies, and engineers and scientists willing to try new things. Therefore, Europe’s top regions for healthcare technology have joined forces in the HealthTIES consortium: Medical Delta (West of the Netherlands), Oxford and Thames Valley, Canton of Zurich, Biocat (Catalonia) and the mentoring Debrecen region in Hungary. Backed up by support from the European Commission, these regions will share their best practices to boost R&D investment and will provide strategic guidance to all EU regions.

Health-TIES combines clinical science with engineering science, businesses, regional authorities and well-established Bioscience Parks. Together, these parties can create a revolution in health and sustainable healthcare. 

Read the public summary of the HealthTIES project proposal

 

The consortium is supported by a grant from the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) - Regions of Knowledge funding scheme