Collaboration Workstream Future Themes

1. Innovation in healthcare: This includes a number of facets – new drugs and how SMC may work more effectively; pathways to get devices/ diagnostics into use in the NHS in Scotland in a more productive manner that helps local industry; and how to compose compelling healthcare and health economic cases for the adoption of innovative health interventions. Can we define a solution to optimise the process?

2. Collaboration: Understand how we can better communicate and collaborate: ask views on communications strategy – where are the gaps; what are the hurdles to collaboration.

3. What about licencing IP: experiences, what were the issues; realistic financial evaluation of IP; risk sharing of IP?

4. Networks: SFC, SULSA, SINAPSE, SAHSCS, SUPA: can interaction be more effective? Eg could we roll out joint PhDs between SULSA and SAHSC? So students get academic and clinical knowledge

5. Enterprise Europe Scotland are running a LS partnering event in collaboration with BIA Scotland and SE Industry team on Friday Feb 5th. We would appreciate any marketing support the networking groups can offer and marketing/further info on the event will be available soon. Please contact Claire Melville