This week, MedTech Makers Lab had the opportunity to deliver a workshop with INOVIA and Ynovate focused on one of the biggest challenges facing European innovation ecosystems today: moving from “supporting startups” to actually commercialising them. INOVIA has rapidly become an important innovation hub within the Žilina region of Slovakia, supporting startups, SMEs, researchers, and regional innovation programmes while helping build a stronger technology and entrepreneurial ecosystem across...

For more than a decade, millions of pounds have been channelled into government-funded accelerator programmes, incubation schemes, innovation vouchers, university enterprise initiatives, and publicly supported ecosystem projects across both the East and West Midlands. Yet despite all of this activity, the Midlands still struggles to consistently produce globally scaled MedTech and Life Sciences companies. The region has world-class ingredients. The East Midlands alone has strong universities,...

CHU Mustapha is the largest hospital in Africa. (French: Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire Mustapha d'Alge) Founded in 1854, it operates as a major university teaching hospital affiliated with University of Algiers and the Algerian Ministry of Health. The hospital has around 1,500 beds and internal research facilities. MedTech Makers Lab is proud to announce the beginning of a strategic research and development partnership initiative between the United Kingdom and Algeria, centred around...