Helseinnovatørskolen 2016

School of Health Innovation We aim to provide healthcare and life science researchers with tools and insight into how innovation can be put to work for the benefit of patients, the healthcare system and our society. The students learn how to turn research results and ideas into business ventures and how to create innovative services in a clinical setting. You meet with and learn from leaders in academia, hospitals and healthcare companies. A core part of the course is case-based work where the cases are developed in collaboration between the universities and companies. In addition, the participants will identify and develop potentially commercializable ideas from their own research environment. The teaching language throughout the course is English. "Health innovation and entrepreneurship" is open for PhD candidates and postdoctors in healthcare research from at UiO, NTNU, KI, UiB, UiT, clinicians working at hospitals and other collaborating institutions. The course is open for applications from qualified applicants from medicine, psychology, odontology, technology and natural sciences. Purpose of School of Health Innovation: To get your research out of the drawer, and put to use for society Too often life science researchers in the academic world would be busy working in the basic or translational research lab, but not knowing how to create something lasting for society, something that outlives them. This is a problem in most societies, and there´s a need to build bridges between basic and translational research with companies and investors that can help to commercialize your health care innovation. But how am I going to do it? The basic medical or life science training doesn´t tell me a thing about commercializing my research. And most likely, my professor is telling you to be skeptical about the corporates that would to collaborate with your academic lab. Well both the academic world and some pharmaceutical companies are trying to change this pattern. School of Health Innovation helps our talented health researchers bring their research from the lab to the patients and to society. The program is funded by the collaborating universities, UIO, NTNU and KI, and also supported with funding from Norwegian Research council and UIO Life Science. School of Health Innovation is developed in partnership with Nansen Neuroscience Network.