The UiO Growth House – UiO’s innovation unit for life sciences, health, and technology
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The innovation conference Science Impact 2023 – tomorrow's solutions start today 27 September is a meeting place for academia, the institute sector, the public sector, start-ups and industry that are developing solutions within health and environment. Spend a day with excellent science, innovation and networking opportunities!
We zoom in on the human brain, heart, body and planetary health; and dive into energy production (wind and solar) and storage (battery and hydrogen) to give you cutting-edge research and development from the University of Oslo, Oslo University Hospital, SINTEF, start-ups from the innovation ecosystem in Oslo and companies.
How do we develop solutions to secure a sustainable health system that will have fewer resources in the future? How can we maintain a healthier population to start with? How do we develop solutions for a sustainable power system? How can technology contribute to new solutions?? How should academia and industry collaborate to increase the impact of science?
Programme
08:00–10:00 Impact Breakfast: Planetary health
10:30–12:30 Parallel sessions life sciences and energy & environment
Life sciences I: How to keep the brain healthy?
Energy & environment I: Sustainable energy production: Wind and solar
12:30–13:30 Lunch
13:30–15:30 Parallel sessions life sciences and energy & environment
Life sciences II: How to keep the heart healthy?
Energy & environment II: Efficient energy storage: Battery and hydrogen
15:30–16:30 Afternoon bite
16:30–18:30 Life sciences III: Cutting edge technologies to study the human body
18:30–20:00 Evening gathering
The conference is a part of Oslo Innovation Week 2023.
InLifeScience 12 September
The Life Science Cluster, which is one of our partners at Science Impact 2023, is also organising their annual conference InLifeScience – Securing the future at Fornebu 12 September in collaboration with Tekna. UiO is a member of The Life Science Cluster, and all who are affiliated with UiO gets a membership discount. The conference is held in Norwegian.
The health industry value chain – a new tool for dialogue and prioritisation
This spring, the health incubator Aleap invited the UiO Growth House and the entire innovation ecosystem, including health clusters and incubators in Oslo Science Park, to collaborate on developing a value chain for the health industry. The model of the value chain for the health industry is now ready for use.
The model will help shed light on bottlenecks on the way from research and ideas to pharmaceuticals, medical devices and digital therapies that are exported and sold globally. It will help us prioritise when we are to build a sustainable Norwegian health industry and realise the ambitions in the government's new road map for the health industry.
The university is an important contributor in many parts of the value chain. The value chain was presented to a larger audience for the first time at the event "Road map and value chains as important tools for realising the potential in the new Norwegian health industry".
Contact us if you have an early-phase innovation idea!
We offer tailored guidance and support, including seed funding up to NOK 200,000. Contact us if you want to discuss how to proceed with your early-phase innovation idea.