About the partners
Partnership compositionThe partners represent the expertises needed to implement BSHR HealthPort across borders and sectors:
-Triple helix networks/clusters representing public authorities, health care providers, universities and industries
-Regional authorities/owners of healthcare providers
-Universities
-A meta-regional BSR triple helix network representing public authorities, health care providers, universities and industries
-The EU BSR flagship ScanBalt Health region
All partners have long term experience in developing ScanBalt BioRegion and thus have a well founded communication between them. ScanBalt BioRegion covers:
-238 hospitals/clinics
- 2543 life science companies mostly SMEs
- 1012 universities/research institutes
- 112 investors.
The composition of the consortium ensures that competencies and decision making capacity is represented within:
1) Public-private and cross-border collaboration in the health care sector
2) The health care system
3) Specific academic competencies
4) SMEs and other industries
5) BSR investment and innovation issues
6) Regional, national, BSR and EU health care/health economy policy issues.
Partners
1. ScanBalt f.m.b.a (DK), www.scanbalt.org
2. Göteborg University, www.gu.se
3. North Denmark Region (DK), www.rn.dk/Regionen/English/
4. Culminatum Oy Ltd (FI), www.culminatum.fi
5. Entrepreneurship Development Centre for Biotechnology and Medicine (EE), www.biopark.ee/?mid=72
6. BioCon Valley gmbh (GE), www.bcv.org
7. Turku Science Park (FI), www.turkusciencepark.com
8. Baltic centre for Biotehcnology and Innovative Diagnostics "Biobaltica", (PL), www.biobaltica.pl
9. Vilnius University (LT), www.vu.lt/en/
Associated Partners
BSHR HealtPort is supported by organisations recognizing that BSR demands, competencies, technologies for better treatment of illnesses are growing and that this together with a demographic shift calls for an innovative BSR healthcare sector. Additionally they support the need and development of SMEs in BSR healthcare.They declare that the results of BSHR HealthPort is of great importance to promote the development of a cross-border and cross-sectorial BSR health sector and make their communication channels available to BSHR HealthPort to attract the relevant target groups.Finally they declare to apply the results and outcomes of the project and implement them in their organisation. The associated partners are:
1. West Pomeranian Centre of Advanced Technologies, Szczecin (PL)
2. Read-Gene S.A, Szczecin (PL).
3. Klaipeda University, Klaipeda (LT)
4. Hospital District of Southwest Finland,Turku University Hospital (FI)
5. Biocelex Ltd,Turku (FI)
6. Finnish Bioindustries, Helsinki (FI)
7. Network of German Health Regions, Greifswald/Berlin (GE)
8. Oslo Medtech (NO)
9. Linnaeus University, Kalmar/Växjö (SE)
10. Västra Göteland Region, Göteborg (SE)
11. Estonian E-health Foundation, Tallinn (EE)
12. North Estonian Medical Center (EE)
13. Danish Regions, Copenhagen (DK)
14. University College Nordjylland, Aalborg (DK)
These organisations cover major stakeholder and target groups for BSHR HealthPort (Health care providers, SMEs, decision makers).