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WelfareTech Welfare Tech operates a national cluster in Denmark. It is a hub for innovation and business development in healthcare, homecare and social services.

We are a membership organisation with members from private industry, public organisations, research and education institutions. The core of Welfare Tech comprises innovative Danish companies and public institutions. We operate as a national entry point and test bed for international companies who want to enter the Danish and European market. Set ambitious goals. Establish the right focus. And the results will come.

FORCE Technology When you engage in developing your business with Welfare Tech, you get the optimum conditions to implement user- oriented innovation. Through a unique collaboration involving public, professional and private partners, we help to test and assess products so they can be launched on the market. Business Innovation

The platform for a brand new industry is currently developing in Denmark, as new Danish super hospitals and forward-thinking municipalities are actively participating in shaping exciting innovation environments. Welfare Tech’s aim is to use this platform for business development in healthcare, homecare and social services. We contribute to developing, testing and implementing new products, which – when they succeed – obtain a “blue stamp” for sale on the Danish and global markets. We achieve this aim by creating active networks, dialogue between companies and links between companies and public sector stakeholders. Through Welfare Tech, member organisations gain contact to decision makers, leaders and specialists in the area. The intention is clear and unambiguous: To utilise built-in synergies to create new business opportunities with extensive user focus and involvement. Welfare Tech serves as the Danish entry point to a cooperation that helps you realise new welfare solutions. This is our focus. And it generates results. Denmark is known for its welfare system featuring highly educated personnel and well organised services for all citizens. A user oriented methodology and a unique readiness to use new technologies makes Denmark an optimal location for developing and testing new solutions for healthcare, homecare and social services.

Business development

Welfare Tech helps you to generate business based on your idea. We provide advising on business plans, business cases, requirements and certifications; we can also help with testing and assessment of solutions and marketing The pivotal moment: to the Danish and European market. We are able to do this because of our Approval is the deep knowledge of the Danish market, both culturally and commercially. door to Europe We know the current demands and associated administrative procedures. Therefore, we can advise on the approvals required before a new solution Some knowledge is more necessary can be implemented, thus opening the door to the Danish and European than other knowledge. You can get markets. We have mapped the various players on the market and can help access to a critical competence at you establish contact with the right collaborative groups. Finally, we can Welfare Tech through our extensive support you in establishing operations in Denmark and can identify funding domain knowledge of the healthcare opportunities through private equity funds and other funds, many of which sector. For example, we can advise specifically target this area and are easily accessible. you on the approvals required before a product can be marketed. This approval is essential, as it opens the doors to the Danish and European markets. Did you know?

Companies, hospitals and universities cooperate in the development of new methods and solutions for the automation of sterile centres and procedure packing at hospitals, thereby making cleaning and packaging of surgical instruments and equipment more efficient. The solutions are implemented at existing hospitals and the new super hospitals under construction in Denmark. The first elements of the solutions have been implemented and are the first of their kind in the world. When fully deployed at the approximately 30 public sterile centres in Denmark, they alone are expected to deliver savings of DKK 110 million annually (15 million EURO).

Business development “Denmark is the country that has made the greatest advancements in the digitalisation of hospitals, municipalities and medical practices. Therefore, it is also the easiest place to develop e-health and tele-medicine solutions involving all parties.”

Society will have an increasing population of citizens who require care while the share of working people is falling. This is the challenge around which we are building an industry! A market-driven cluster

Denmark has a long tradition of a good and extensive welfare system. The Danish system has prioritised an equal right to benefits for all. But this is exerting increasing pressure on the national economy as the group of senior citizens is growing larger than the working population. To address this development, politicians have decided that we must develop and make use of technological solutions to meet these increasing requirements and form the basis for a new area of business. Denmark possesses special strength in this field. We have a tradition of good welfare benefits. There are few hierarchies in Danish society. And we are good at composing new solutions from existing technologies. At Welfare Tech, we utilise these strengths to create new business opportunities by innovating and implementing new solutions. We do this through our large network and an approach that brings together talented healthcare professionals from a range of environments in fruitful collaborations. Did you know?

Welfare Technologies are defined as technologies and solutions that enhance the efficiency and quality of life in society. Ecum nus, seditias enis doluptatecte culpa prenim dolo dolo et estempore et enimusllaut quas exerfe- ro omni autect

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... Welfare Tech facilitates and conducts workshops that strengthen your network and ensure companies insight across national borders? Here you receive... network without borders Welfare Tech is a national entry point that has been conceived with an international perspective from the start. This has benefited many member organisations, such as Gjøvik University College in Norway, which has gained network and insight into the development and implementation of welfare technology in Denmark. Membership Network also provides increased dialogue with the welfare technology community in Denmark, and Gjøvik University Welfare Tech provides access to an interdisciplinary network of welfare College participates in workshops stakeholders, where you can share knowledge and develop new welfare and study tours on topics such as solutions and concepts. We conduct projects, conferences, workshops, Smart Living. network meetings, matchmaking and communications activities.

The network offers a great diversity of knowledge and competencies, giving good feedback and the opportunity to develop and test new ideas, prototypes and products across different professional fields. Join and be inspired by companies, research and educational institutions, service companies, business centres, municipalities, nursing homes and hospitals. Meet manufacturers, developers, engineers, designers, professional specialists, personnel and end users. As a member, you get special advantages in connection with events, workshops and direct dialogue meetings. together we are capable of more than ”NETWORK any company by itself” together we are capable of more than ”NETWORK any company by itself”

The root of all good is found in the real world of everyday users. By involving users and personnel, you can gain inspiration for tackling everyday challenges, find new and smarter solutions and test them in a comprehensive, market-oriented process. Good products start with collaboration

Welfare Tech helps to mature your product ideas and ensure their business potential. We do this through meetings with users and personnel, e.g. at nursing homes and hospitals, which provides you valuable feedback from the people who are deeply rooted in everyday practices. They help you to test the potential and applications of your ideas. In connection with the development and implementation of your product, Welfare Tech can help to identify the right partners, such as suppliers of specific technologies and consortium partners that can strengthen your position in sales situations. Welfare Tech provides physical facilities for collaboration and offers an IT platform that facilitates project management from start to finish and unites partners from different geographic locations.

Medisat A/S We help you from idea to implementation. The process consists of several phases. We can help you all the way:

Idea. We start with an idea Screening: We conduct Consortium formation: Based Fundraising is often check and a competence/ knowledge scanning to test the on the concept and analysis of the difference between resource needs analysis. market position and novelty competence and technology go and no-go . We are In what areas do you need value of the idea, as well as needs, we are able to bring the thoroughly familiar with guidance and feedback? the possibility of successful right partners into the project. the Danish funding implementation schemes and can assist with applications.

We help companies that need to get their competences and products into the market. We do this by involving users and professionals who provide valuable feedback. Companies then transform this feedback into new solutions and business as the product is launched and implemented. Development and testing Market maturation is the Company start-up can be a Implementation: Welfare New opportunities arise in is crucial. We can match process from solution to natural consequence of your Tech helps to identify the your meeting with the market. you with the right partners marketable product. We provide idea. Welfare Tech can provide right technology departments, We are prepared to take you and test facilities to test support and dialogue regarding consultancy and assistance buyers, joint venture partners, further – with new products, your solution. business cases, sales channels, in establishing operations in etc. that can bring your product business ideas or in new and requirements and approval. Denmark. to the market. collaborations.

We support your innovation process

Welfare Tech’s primary focus area is business development of new product ideas and improvements in order to ensure growth and greater efficiency and quality of life in society. Thus we help to create new products, improve solutions on the market, and identify new areas of application for existing products. To support collaborations, we provide a range of facilities, including:

Welfare Tech Lab is a physical innovation space where you can connect with the world and exchange solutions and experiences via ICT tools such as video conferencing, smart boards, iPads, video clips, images and sounds. Thus, you and your partners can conduct meetings with participants scattered across the world. This makes it easy for you to share knowledge and develop your ideas, transforming them into new solutions and business. In addition, you can use Welfare Tech Lab to establish ad hoc workplaces as needed.

Welfare Tech Innovation is an online tool that makes it easier to create and lead an innovation collaboration. The platform helps you to share knowledge and development products and projects with other partners in a modular process, whether you are in Denmark or other parts of the world. Did you know?

Patient@home is the largest research and innovation consortium in Denmark. With 29 companies, including 22 small and medium enterprises, and headed by University of Southern Denmark, Patient@home develops new welfare technology to improve the quality of life for patients and to make the public healthcare and service care more efficient. The solutions aim to ensure fewer and shorter hospital stays while improving the quality and use of resources in treatment. Patient@ home aims to do this with an approach that involves patients in their own treatment and rehabilitation.

The solutions are found in cross-disciplinary collaborations between personnel, patients, private companies and research institutions, which aim to develop new welfare technology products to improve rehabilitation and care of patients, and to increase the use of home- monitored treatment.

In autumn 2011, The Danish Council for Strategic Research and the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation granted Patient@home DKK 70 million (9.55 million EURO) under the strategic research and innovation platform, SPIR. This is the largest grant given to date, and it is further supplemented by co-financing that brings the total amount of the project to approximately DKK 190 million (26 million EURO). Results that count

Welfare Tech supports the practical implementation of your projects. Both in terms of funding and driving projects through the different phases, from project maturation and funding applications, to testing and implementation. These efforts produce results. Take, for example, the portfolio project Patient@home.

Odense Municipality / Medisat A/S

“The road to success is paved with dialogue, feedback and inspiration for new business opportunities and business cases” ændres er allerede benyttet (istedet for et LEGO billede)

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Hospital & Health Innovation A historic national investment in the construction of new large elite hospitals creates a great potential for introducing new welfare technologies and creating a platform for large scale sales.

Rehab Innovation Demographic changes call for greater focus on rehabilitation of citizens and healthy ageing. New technologies are needed to make citizens more resourceful and support their quality of life.

Social Service Innovation Socially disadvantaged people are costly to society. Welfare technologies can assist in rethinking the social sector to improve efficiency and to make these people more self-reliant.

Ergolet ApS We are currently gathering and sharing competencies in:

Hospital & Health Innovation Rehab Innovation Social Service Innovation

Welfare Tech maintains a narrow focus that enables us to be highly knowledgeable in the area where we strive to make a difference. We have extensive knowledge of both users and customers in the areas we prioritise. We have mapped virtually all players in the field. And we utilise this knowledge to handle our last central area of work: Matchmaking. DELTA

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Matchmaking

Welfare Tech helps you to find the right partners for idea development, testing and realisation of your project – whether you need one-on-one contact with relevant users and professionals, contact to suppliers with specific technologies, or identification of consortium partners that can enhance your strength in sales situations. The idea is that diversity is strength. The conditions for rapid innovation and business development are nurtured by incorporating various competencies and impressions into your process. However, it can be difficult to identify others with the competencies to strengthen your specific process at its current product stage, and it can be hard to find the right company or public sector partner. Welfare Tech possesses extensive domain knowledge that enables us to find the right partner to advance your project towards realisation.

Did you know?

Panasonic assessed their latest version of a robotic bed, RBH1, in Odense Municipality. The bed can be automatically transformed into an electric wheelchair. Thus, citizens and personnel avoid potentially harmful transfer situations, while citizens also achieve a greater degree of freedom and self- reliance. Citizens and personnel in Odense Municipality have tested different prototypes of the bed and contributed input to Panasonic’s development process. In addition to Panasonic Panasonics and Odense Municipality, the collaboration also included Aarhus Municipality, Alexandra Institute, RoboCluster, Region of Southern Denmark and Central Denmark Region. “We will quite simply create a better future and a better world”

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