Promoting Healthcare Innovation with a “Dragon’s Den”-Style Competition

This virtual innovation platform will connect a wide range of stakeholders and enable multidisciplinary collaborations for healthcare innovation.

UCL is a world-leader in medical research. However, the rate at which this is translated into the real-world is hampered by bottlenecks in product development and manufacturing. Promoting healthcare innovation with a “Dragon’s Den”-style competition through a virtual innovation platform aims to connect a wide range of stakeholders and enable multidisciplinary collaborations for healthcare innovation.

The virtual hub will be used to gather challenges, and support the formation of the teams that will compete in the Dragon’s Den event:

1. Partners (members of the network) will be able to post “challenges” they would like to solve.
2. The platform will help match partners to a challenge
3. Members can discuss challenges and form collaborations.
4. Teams will compete in the Dragon’s Den event for the award that will fund initial data collection and inform a larger bid.

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