Introduction
Experience shows that many times viable ideas that can improve care itself and can generate business for entrepreneurs, never leave the head or the surgery of the medical professional.
Vice versa, applications for high-level biotech methods for early diagnostics in day-to-day care practise are being looked for.
MedScout has been created to reduce the waste of innovative ideas in the health care sector by actively scouting these ideas and linking the feasible ones to interested companies for further development.
Activities and expected results:
MedScout has been set up to reduce the waste of innovative ideas in
the health care sector by actively scouting these ideas and linking
the feasible ones to interested companies for further development.
The trigger for the subproject is that experience shows that many
times viable ideas that can improve care itself and can generate business
for entrepreneurs, never leave the head or the surgery of the medical
professional.
Vice versa, applications for high-level biotech methods for early
diagnostics in day-to-day care practise, are being looked for.
In order to reduce this waste and to stimulate medical innovations
by SME's, MedScout seeks to transform ideas from medical professionals
into realistic business opportunities.
MedScout will set up a platform that will generate and offer possible
applications for diagnostics based on metabolomics1 to
the medical sector.
Who and how can utilize the results of the MedScout subproject?
Besides a number of strong business cases,
MedScout will deliver a platform that will stimulate SME's to be involved
in pharmaceutical post-discovery activities.
Furthermore, it will generate a model for the transformation of ideas
from medical professionals into business opportunities for entrepreneurs.
What competitive advantage does the MedScout subproject
offer?
By linking the networks of the four participating regions, better
opportunities are created for innovative entrepreneurs that seek business
expansion in the medical field.
Lead partner is the NV Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij.
Obtained results
Within MedScout a good transregional Network has been established. MedScout has set up a platform that generates and offers possible applications for diagnostics based on metabolomics1 to the medical sector. The “Metabolite Mapper as a concrete tool in metabolomics has been developed in the course of MedScout and applications for this tool have been found. In this context several “Mapping lits” have been designed and tested with some of them being market ready.
The database of the transregional network can be found on the webpage of MedScout, www.medscouting.eu. |
Contact:
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NV BOM
Noord-Brabant
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1 A science that comprehends the
analysis of the thousands of small molecules such as sugars and fats
that are the products of metabolism in order to translate this metabolic
information into more accurate medical diagnostic tests.
