For HCN, the challenge of health sector investment goes beyond the ability to manage assets to achieve cost savings while providing high quality services. It is to answer the question of how health sector investment can contribute to sustainable economic growth and social cohesion within regions.

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Health innovations

This knowledge theme explores how health sector investment, policy and practice in R&D can be aligned with regional policies on technology development/application and entrepreneurship. This involves relevant stakeholders, making best use of structural funds, mobilising wide range of local resources and encouraging health sector investment in R&D within the health sector supply chain and university sector in ways that create social added value from innovation and technology transfer.

Among the issues to be addressed are how to:

  • promote integration of technology and infrastructure (housing, transport, health care delivery) in order to promote social value e.g. online elderly communities,
  • foster the development of local SMEs (cross-link with C2 procurement theme),
  •  improve entrepreneurial skills and support the development of new environmentally friendly technologies,
  • promote women's participation in technology development,
  • enhance international competitiveness of SMEs (support to traditional products and creativity, development of ICT technology and E-commerce),
  • develop efficient business consultancy and innovation (establishing regional business centres, organising fairs).
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Icon Health ClusterNet Report 4 - How the health sector can contribute to regional development: the role of health innovations 4.9 MB
Icon Policy recommendations on health innovations - The Liverpool Agenda 157.2 KB

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