Projects

The Nova SBE Open & User Innovation Knowledge Center has several ongoing projects, including:

Patient Innovation Bootcamp: Boasting Patient Entrepreneurship

Patient Innovation Bootcamp: Boasting Patient Entrepreneurship

By EIT Health.

Healthcare Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Impact: Creating a Resilient, Safe and Crowd-based Innovation System
PTDC/EGE-OGE/7995/2020

Healthcare Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Impact: Creating a Resilient, Safe and Crowd-based Innovation System

By Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia.

HealthEConnect Horizon Scale-UP Project

HealthEConnect Horizon Scale-UP Project

We have recently kicked-off the project “HealthEConnect”, funded by the European Commission through the Innovation Ecosystems initiative within Horizon Europe, with a consortium of European partners including the BioInnovation Institute, Copenhagen Business School, NOVA Medical School - Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Nova School of Business and Economics, Patient Innovation and Startup Europe Regions Network (SERN).

This project is aimed at connecting the health innovation ecosystems in Denmark and Portugal and intends to develop a new educational program on health innovation building upon previous and ongoing collaborations between institutions in the two countries, namely the EIT Health MSc labelled program, students exchanges and the Patient Innovation Bootcamp acceleration program.

Feel free to accompany the project’ progress on their website (https://healtheconnect.eu/) as well as on the partner’s social media accounts.

Releasing the power of users – articulating user interests to accelerate new innovative pathways in the digital health and welfare sector

Releasing the power of users – articulating user interests to accelerate new innovative pathways in the digital health and welfare sector

By the Norwegian Research Council.

Revolutionizing Healthcare: Empowering patients by valuing innovation and promoting entrepreneurship
PTDC/EGE-OGE/32573/2017

Revolutionizing Healthcare: Empowering patients by valuing innovation and promoting entrepreneurship

By Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia.

Nominations and Awards

  • Patient Innovation received an Honorable Mention at the TOP Health Awards– Portugal (2024)
  • United Nations nominated Patient Innovation as an example of SDGs' Good Practices (2021)
  • Patient Innovation won the Planetiers World Gathering Award 2020 in the category of Non-Governmental Organizations (2020)
  • Patient Innovation won the World Summit Awards (WSA) – Portugal (2018)
  • Patient Innovation won the Prémio Fidelidade Comunidade (2018)
  • Patient Innovation won the Santa Casa Challenge (2018)
  • Patient Innovation was nominated for Red Herring – TOP 100 startups (2018)
  • Patient Innovation was awarded a Shuttleworth Flash Grant from the Shuttleworth Foundation, South Africa (2017)
  • AACSB's Entrepreneurship Spotlight Challenge Honoree (2017)
  • Non-profit startup of the Year Award for Patient Innovation at The Healthcare Startup Awards, London, UK (2016)
  • The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Kin-moon, recognized Patient Innovation as an example of "Commitments to Collective Action" due to its contribution to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Mr. Ban Ki-moon deemed the project "highly encouraging" (2016).
  • Featured in the exhibition "Beyond the Lab: The DIY Science Revolution" organized by the London Science Museum. The exhibition visited 29 European countries from 2016 to 2018.
  • Patient Innovation was the "most voted project from the crowd" (with about 26,000 votes) and a semifinalist at Harvard Heath Innovation Challenge, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA (2014).