HEALTH FOR GROWTH
Developing Regional Actions to Promote SMEs in Health Sector and Stimulate Economic Growth
Challenge
Improve the effectiveness of regional development policies regarding the operational environment of local/regional economic players within the health sector and promote their cooperation in order to exploit the growth and innovation potential of the sector.
Solution
The Health4Growth project was able to:
- Analyse the state of the art nature of entrepreneurship in the health sector in each of the nine participating regions (State of Play reports);
- Identify and promote the exchange of good practices and conduct workshops in areas related to finance, human capital and support infrastructures for entrepreneurship in health;
- Develop more detailed plans for the implementation of good practices with the lessons learned among the project partners;
- Develop a range of 10 key policy recommendations to improve entrepreneurship in healthcare:
- Administrative simplification and flexibility;
- Living labs as an innovation instrument;
- Increase policy coherence in healthcare regulation;
- Multi-national approach and implementation;
- Enhancement of interdisciplinary and cross sector programmes and projects;
- Promote entrepreneurship for young adults;
- Deliver solutions for the market of the future through the exchange of good practice;
- Demand-driven innovation;
- Promoting healthy lifestyle;
- Supporting entrepreneurship in the health sector through public procurement.
Project Reference
1222R4/H4GFunding
