TechMed Innovation Hub

The TechMed Innovation Hub is a non-profit collaboration of partners, coordinated by the TechMed Centre of the University of Twente that stimulates the development and implementation of technology for better healthcare. In order to realize true impact in healthcare and the medtech industry, the TechMed Innovation Hub boosts innovation and digital transformation by;

• connecting different stakeholders in its network and regional ecosystem,
• offering a wide diversity of services,
• stimulating new innovation projects with funds and voucher programs,
• and by offering our extensive experience in Tech Transfer.

The hub offers access to state of the art facilities, supporting activities in education (regular programs and tailor made life-long-learning approaches),research and innovation, and actively facilitates collaboration by organizing network events and facility sharing vouchers. The network of partners includes facilities such as production and testing labs for medical imaging, medical robotics, wearable technologies and translational physiology, experimental hybrid OR’s, simulated ICU’s, a variety of medical training-simulators, a CitizensScience lab to include future users, an eHealth lab where users can “try before you buy” and a broad range of specific technical medical research labs.

The Hub offers specific support to SMEs and larger companies to ‘future proof’ their companies, by means of free consultancy, access to student-employees and internships, funding advice, networking, matchmaking sessions and access to end-users. (future) Entrepreneurs are actively supported by innovation-brokers to discover the trends and technologies that dominate the industry of tomorrow, explore potential innovative opportunities and get started with tools and programs.