- 16.01.2013 BSHR HealthPort - Press Study Tour
- 04.12.2012 BSHR HealthPort - The Need for a Common Baltic Sea Region Innovation Agenda for Health Economy
- 02.11.2012 BSHR HealthPort - How to Foster Health Care Innovations in Finland
- 16.08.2012 BSHR HealthPort - BSHR HealthPort to discuss Public-Private Collaboration for the Future Hospital at ScanBalt Forum
- 16.08.2012 BSHR HealthPort - The Baltic Sea Region as an Open Health Care Innovation Market
- 27.06.2012 BSHR HealthPort - The EU Baltic Sea Region Flagship ScanBalt HealthRegion and BSHR HealthPort on Tour
- 29.05.2012 BSHR HealthPort - Registration for ScanBalt Forum 2012 open, see www.scanbalt.org
- 08.05.2012 BSHR HealthPort - Meet BSHR HealthPort and the flagship ScanBalt HealthRegion at the 14th European Commission’s 3rd Annual Forum on the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, 17 - 19 June Copenhagen
- 14.04.2012 BSHR HealthPort - Registration open: Regulations and Public Procurement: How to Overcome Major Pitfalls on the Stony Road to the Market?, 3 May Hamburg
- 11.04.2012 BSHR HealthPort - Procurement as major source of boosting health care innovation
- 29.03.2012 BSHR HealthPort workshop - Procurement in Health Care
- 28.03.2012 BSHR HealthPort workshop
- 20.03.2012 HealthPort Scouting and Match Making workshop
- 27.03.2012 HealtPort Scouting and Match Making Workshop
- 04.04.2012 How to get maximum impact from WoHIT - BSHR HealthPort Workshop
- 03.05.2012 HealthPort workshop: Regulations and Public Procurement: How to Overcome Major Pitfalls on the Stony Road to the Market
- 13.09.2012 HealthPort session at Life Science Baltics 2012
- 22.11.2012 BSHR HealthPort - How to Foster Health Care Innovations in Finland
- 16.10.2013 BSHR HealthPort - ScanBalt Forum
- 28.05.2013 BSHR HealthPort - HealthPort Press Study Tour
Project title: Baltic Sea Health Region - Business acceleration support and training bridging innovative SMEs and health care organisations to strengthen BSR health economy
Application call: 3
Priority: 1. Fostering innovations
Project website: www.scanbalt.org/projects

Lead Partner:
ScanBalt f.m.b.a.Arne Jacobsens Alle 15, 2
2300 S Copenhagen
DK
Peter Frank
E-mail: pf@scanbalt.org
Phone: 0045 27141078
Fax: N/A
Project Manager:
ScanBalt f.m.b.a.Arne Jacobsens Alle 15, 2
2300 S Copenhagen
DK
Peter Frank
E-mail: pf@scanbalt.org
Phone: 00 45 27141078
Fax: N/A
Information Manager:
ScanBalt f.m.b.a.c/o Frank, Allegade 14, 4tv
2000 Frederiksberg
DK
Peter Frank
E-mail: pf@scanbalt.org
Phone: 00 45 27141078
Fax:
Summary description of the project:
EU health care sector spending ranges from 5-11% of regional GDP facing further increase due to demographic development and cost increase in drug & technology development. At the same time a paradigm shift occurs: health care is not only seen as a cost factor but also as a driver of economy and an important factor of employment. However health care is split into sectors which function separately: health care providers, enterprises, research institutions, regulatory and financing institutions. BSHR HealthPort aims at bridging the existing cross-sectoral gaps by involving the regional key actors in the value chain of health care innovations. Specifically BSHR HealthPort adresses following key bottlenecks:
1) Insufficient commercial exploitation of ideas proposed by health care researchers and practitioners
2) Procurement practices limiting access of innovative SMEs to the health care market
3) Insufficient innovation competencies of and cultural differences between the target groups
Key objectives
1) Set up cross-sectoral innovation market (“HealthPort”) involving all health care related sectors.
2) Promote SME business development and facilitate their access to the health care market by identifying cross-sectoral pilot cases and increasing SME access to financing.
3) Enhance innovation competencies of the involved actors with tailor-made cross-sectoral programmes
4) Develop regional innovation agendas and align them towards a BSR wide “health economy strategy” to improve healthcare by reducing costs and enhancing regional economic development.
BSHR HealthPort partners and associated organizations cover all health care related sectors and comprise expertise from triple helix organizations, public authorities, health care providers, industries, universities, financing institutions, as well as owners of health care providers. Their competence and experience allow effective and fast implementation of the project’s results across borders and between sectors.
Work packages & activities
- WP3 is designed to increase the cross-sectoral knowledge of all actors and improve the success ratio of technology transfer/business development by tapping into competence of regional networks, institutes and health care providers
- WP4 will deal with enhancing regional and BSR wide care market access for SMEs by offering support in procurement practises and matchmaking between health care providers and SMEs
- WP5 focuses on increasing the case flow from health care practitioners to SMEs by installing a 2-stage HealthPort idea competition with involvement of financing institutions
- WP6 is dedicated to setting up an Innovation Agenda of the BSR Health Economy through the BSHR Advisory Board. The Agenda shall ensure sustainability of project results by cross-sectoral alignment with regional, national or BSR wide strategies.
Achievements of the project so far:
BSHR HealthPort forms an integrated and important part of the BSHR flagship project with the goal of Baltic Sea Region to become a globally leading and prosperous “Health Region”. After 1 ½ year the project is in the middle of the running period. More specific HealthPort already achieved the following results:
-First support actions for 4 selected of business cases of the innovation idea competition were finalised. They received individual coaching for the further preparation of their business cases. Next step to provide advanced support for a smaller number of cases is under preparation
-Reports published regarding boosting health care innovation in ScanBalt BioRegion
-First modules for practical bioscience education were prepared and a platform concept for the running of several courses developed
-Selection for pilot cases in transnational procurement projects was done after 7 matchmaking workshops across the region
-Innovation agenda advisory board (8 members mainly from the associated partners) developed a draft Innovation Agenda for the Health region
-11th ScanBalt Forum to be held in Tampere in Nov. 2012 includes several HealthPort workshops, which are currently prepared
-The dissemination channels were established and regularly updated to provide project information to the relevant stakeholders and wider public
| Project Duration: | Sep 2010 - Dec 2013 |
| Approximate total project budget in EUR: | 2.485.090,00 |
| ERDF co-financing: | 1.905.120,00 |
| ENPI co-financing: | 0,00 |
| Norwegian national contribution: | 0,00 |
List of partners
| ScanBalt f.m.b.a. | ||||||||
| 2000 Frederiksberg | DENMARK c/o Frank, Allegade 14, 4tv Region: Hovedstaden |
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| Contact person: Peter Frank Phone: 0045 27141078 E-mail: pf@scanbalt.org Web: www.scanbalt.org |
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| North Denmark Region | ||||||||
| 9220
Aalborg Ø
| DENMARK Niels Bohrs Vej 30 Region: Nordjylland |
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| Contact person: Gorm Simonsen Phone: +45 9635 1302 E-mail: gorm.simonsen@rn.dk Web: www.rn.dk |
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| Entrepreneurship Development Centre for Biotechnology and Medicine | ||||||||
| 50410 Tartu | ESTONIA Tiigi 61b Region: Eesti |
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| Contact person: Jaanus Pikani Phone: +372 66 919 68 E-mail: jaanus@biopark.ee Web: www.biomed.ee |
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| BioCon Valley | ||||||||
| 17489 Greifswald | GERMANY Walther-Rathenau-Str. 49a Region: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern |
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| Contact person: Wolfgang Blank Phone: +493834 515300 E-mail: wb@bcv.org Web: www.bcv.org |
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| Turku Science Park | ||||||||
| 20520 Turku | FINLAND Itäinen Tykistökatu 4B Region: Etelä-Suomi |
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| Contact person: Tero Piispanen Phone: +358 2 8803 100 E-mail: tero.piispanen@turkusciencepark.com Web: www.turkusciencepark.com |
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| Baltic Centre for Biotechnology and Innovative Diagnsotics Ltd "BioBaltica" | ||||||||
| 80-172 Gdansik | POLAND Trzy Lipy 3 Region: Pomorskie |
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| Contact person: Krzysztof Bielawski, CEO Phone: +4858 739 77 17 E-mail: bielawsk@biotech.univ.gda.pl; biobaltica@biobaltic Web: www.biobaltica.eu |
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| Vilnius University Institute of Biotechnology | ||||||||
| 2241 Vilnius | LITHUANIA Graiciuno 8 Region: Lietuva |
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| Contact person: Daumantas Matulis, Leonas Grinius Phone: +37052691884 E-mail: matulis@ibt,lt, grinius@ibt.lt Web: www.ibt.lt |
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| University of Gothenburg | ||||||||
| 405 30 Göteborg | SWEDEN Box 100 Region: Västsverige |
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| Contact person: Boo Edgar Phone: +46 31 786 00 00 E-mail: boo.edgar@gu.se Web: www.gu.se |
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| Culminatum Innovation Oy Ltd | ||||||||
| 2150 Espoo | FINLAND Tekniikantie 12FI Region: Etelä-Suomi |
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| Contact person: Riikka Paasikivi Phone: +358 20 7619 550 E-mail: Riikka.paasikivi@culminatum.fi Web: www.culminatum.fi |
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