The Capital Region of Denmark on 6 February 2020 in Copenhagen, Denmark held its Medtech4 Europe project study visit for health policy makers and practicioners, representatives of medical technology companies of the partner regions, in a circle of a short 40 participants.
The morning visits were focusing on how to provide incubation/support to medical technology start-ups and university students who work on inventing novel medtech solutions. For the first group, the start ups, Futurebox, the incubation and acceleration programme was showcased at the Science Park of Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Innovative and already market-proven companies such as Measurelet (intelligent toilet), MedTrace (myocardial perfusion imaging) and OptoCeutics (advancing non-invasive light technologies) were introduced by their founders.
As for the university innovative ideas of the new generation, the Institute of Health Innovation and DTU Science Park co-operates. The Skylab programme of the Institute supports entrepreneurship for students and researchers by prototyping and testing facilities. In such a spirit the Copenhagen Healthtech Solutions (cooperation between the DTU and the Copenhagen Healthtech Cluster) and some private partnerships were showcased. As a closure of the morning, Medtech Bridge introduced experience based solutions on how to scale up medical technology devices to the US market.
