Alberta Innovates support also benefits patients and the health-care system
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The innovation pathway is complicated, and increasingly so within the life sciences industry. Companies are faced with challenges navigating product development, market fit, regulatory compliance and business readiness. Through the Health Innovation Platform Partnerships (HIPP), Alberta Innovates has supported four new University of Calgary initiatives focused on building digital health-related products and services to help clients across Alberta and beyond.
“At Alberta Innovates, we are working with the same clients as universities,” says Dr. Raja Mita, PhD, executive director for health innovation. “We need to bring our skills, expertise, and infrastructure together to create a co-ordinated health innovation ecosystem that will be a competitive advantage for innovation in Alberta.”
Jordana Armstrong, associate director of Innovate Calgary, says most people will already be familiar with social innovation in Canada and at UCalgary, citing examples from the adoption of universal health care to the Registered Disability Savings Plan to Innovate Calgary’s Living Works, an organization disrupting how we think about suicide prevention.
Putting the ‘social’ in ‘innovation’ invites us co-design new approaches and create inclusive partnerships to address challenges that are too big for any individual, company, sector, or even jurisdiction to solve. Investing in social innovation and social enterprise is about investing in ideas to transform social and environmental challenges into opportunities and empowering communities to act on them.
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Jordana Armstrong, associate director of Innovate Calgary, says most people will already be familiar with social innovation in Canada and at UCalgary, citing examples from the adoption of universal health care to the Registered Disability Savings Plan to Innovate Calgary’s Living Works, an organization disrupting how we think about suicide prevention.
Putting the ‘social’ in ‘innovation’ invites us co-design new approaches and create inclusive partnerships to address challenges that are too big for any individual, company, sector, or even jurisdiction to solve. Investing in social innovation and social enterprise is about investing in ideas to transform social and environmental challenges into opportunities and empowering communities to act on them.