About Innovationsplattformen (The Innovation Platform)
Innovationsplattformen (The Innovation Platform) strengthens the capacity for innovation in healthcare throughout Region Västra Götaland. We also ensure effective and sustainable innovation collaboration with companies and academia. In this way, we contribute to the transformation of healthcare and to regional and national growth within Life Science.
Innovation refers to new solutions that address some form of need or demand. It can involve developing and implementing new processes, products, services, or methods. The value of innovation arises when ideas are applied, as the innovation creates benefit in everyday life or in the wider environment.
Innovation in healthcare is based on patient needs
Needs and ideas that can lead to innovations in healthcare often arise in clinical practice and are based on patients’ needs. There are also many examples where innovation has emerged from research, or where inspiration from other industries or sectors leads to new solutions. It is therefore important that healthcare creates the conditions to be an active party in driving innovation forward.
Innovation support for employees and managers
Innovationsplattformen works to ensure that Region Västra Götaland has a strong and sustainable innovation system. We help promote innovation in healthcare and support employees and managers who want to develop needs that can form the basis for innovation, ideas, or activities that lead to innovation projects.
Innovation collaboration between healthcare, industry, and academia
Innovation in the public sector is often driven through collaboration between healthcare and industry. Innovation ideas can also be the result of prior research.
Innovationsplattformen helps facilitate collaborations, not least because we are familiar with the needs within the region’s healthcare system, and we understand the drivers of industry and academia. We have created a large network, which has led to several productive innovation collaborations.