Health Enterprise East

The NIHR's Invention for Innovation (i4i) programme would like to invite submissions of proposals to its Future Product Development 3a and 3b funding streams (FPD3a and FPD3b).

A new on-line shopping website from Health Enterprise East (HEE) has just been launched, offering products which started life as innovations put forward by NHS staff. 

NHS staff from across the region are celebrating their success in Health Enterprise East’s 2009 Innovation Competition, with prizes presented at a prestigious Awards Dinner at the Imperial War Museum Duxford, hosted by comedian, writer and TV personality Jo Brand.

Funding on Offer to Region’s Innovative Companies

From left: Julie Seear, Technology Strategy Board, Karen Livingstone and Claire Cordeaux, NHS East of England, Mark Glover, Technology Strategy Board, Katie Robinson, EEDA and David Connell, University of Cambridge

NHS East of England, the East of England Development Agency and the Technology Strategy Board are leading a major regional initiative to encourage companies to come forward with new technologies to help improve healthcare provision.

The Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI), which is being piloted at regional level in the East of England, is offering funding to companies working on the development of an innovative process, material, device, product or service which will help to meet current health priorities in the region.

The initiative is also being supported by Health Enterprise East (HEE), the region’s NHS Innovation Hub based at Papworth Hospital which is managing the competition on behalf of the funding partners. Up to £100,000 for each winning project is on offer in Phase 1, with the potential of further financial assistance to develop and evaluate projects in Phase 2.