Open Innovation: Driving Collaborative Healthcare Solutions

 

Our Open Innovation Programme is a dynamic, collaborative platform for demand-driven innovation, connecting start-ups, corporates, hospitals, and other key stakeholders to accelerate healthcare breakthroughs. By fostering collaboration, we accelerate product development, enhance efficiency, and reduce costs, benefiting everyone involved.

Open innovation brings together diverse players – start-ups with cutting-edge ideas, corporates with the resources to scale, and hospitals with clinical expertise – to co-create impactful healthcare solutions. This collaborative approach bridges gaps, aligns innovations with business needs, and drives faster market entry.

Together, we can solve Europe’s greatest healthcare challenges. Partner with us and join our network to lead the next wave of healthcare innovation.

 

How we support you

Objectives

If you partner with us on our Open Innovation programme, you can tackle your most pressing healthcare challenges by collaborating with start-ups and other innovators. Here’s how the programme works:

  1. Frame the common unmet need – Identify key pain points in the patient journey and define the real unmet need.
  2. Co-design the joint challenge – Collaboratively define the challenge to bridge the gap between your needs and innovative solutions.
  3. Develop a comprehensive implementation plan – Prepare the teams and solution to present a detailed implementation plan for piloting their solution with the challenge co-creators.
  4. Adapt and accelerate innovations – Prepare solutions for adoption or reimbursement by validating implementation and market access strategies.
  5. Pilot together – Test innovative solutions, gather evidence on patient outcomes, and develop new value-based healthcare models.

With EIT Health’s support, you can de-risk innovation, tailor solutions to your challenges, and access cutting-edge technologies to transform healthcare delivery.

Current challenges

Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis challenge

Together with the programme co-creators of the 2025 Open Innovation Challenge, we aim to unveil some of the unmet needs in eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA).

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Breast cancer challenge

Together with the programme co-creators of the 2025 Open innovation Challenge, we aim to map more pressure needs in breast cancer early detection, diagnosis and management.

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Get Involved

Co-create challenges with our network to drive healthcare innovation

Collaborate with leading start-ups, hospitals, and experts to solve critical healthcare challenges. Connect with us to explore challenge co-creation opportunities and make a lasting impact.

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Showcase and collaborate on innovative solutions

Join the Open Innovation Programme to present your solutions and collaborate with industry leaders and healthcare providers. Stay informed about upcoming challenges and application opportunities.

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Invest in the future of healthcare

Discover high-potential start-ups developing cutting-edge solutions in healthcare. Connect with us to learn more about investment opportunities.

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