Innovation in Healthcare: from Research to Market

Flagey , Place Sainte-Croix (next to Place Flagey), 1050 Brussels, Belgium 30-31 March 2011

European Commission's DGs Research and Innovation, Enterprise and Industry and Health and Consumers jointly organized the Conference Innovation in Healthcare: from Research to Market, in Brussels on 30-31 March 2011.

This conference brought together the key stakeholders of the healthcare sector to highlight and discuss the policy developments needed for research and innovation in healthcare at European and National level, in the frame of the Innovation Union and beyond.

It was the second edition of the conference building on the successful event of May 2010.

Please find here the outcome reports of both 2010 and 2011 conferences: 2010 | 2011

The objective of the 2011 conference was to produce an analysis of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) for innovation in healthcare and make specific recommendations to be addressed to policy-makers and stakeholders.

The conference programme consisted of a number of plenary and parallel sessions and provided large space for debate among panellists, involving also the audience. During each session the moderators drew conclusions and performed, as appropriate, a SWOT analysis with recommendations that was presented during the closing plenary and summarized in an outcome report.

The whole event was complemented by a small "fair" where associations and support structures provided information to the participants.

Key stakeholders in the innovation of healthcare, policy makers, Member States, universities, other research institutions, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), larger companies, industry associations, researchers, hospital managers, patients and patients associations participated in the conference.

Commissioner for Research and Innovation, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship Antonio Tajani and Commissioner John Dalli, responsible for Health and Consumer Policy were among the speakers. The meeting was also addressed by representatives of the Council of the EU, Minister of State for Health of Hungary, Miklós Sócska and member of the European Parliament , Maria Da Graça Carvalho.

Conference programme: here

Biographies and photographs of the speakers: (1.53MB)

Recordings of the sessions

First day Wednesday 30 March 2011: View Video
Second day Thursday 31 March 2011: View Video