Innovation Booster Digital Health Nation (Switzerland)

The open innovation bring experts, patients and entrepreneurs together to identify challenges and explore innovative solutions that blend health and technology. The accelerator programs provide funding and support to develop winning ideas into minimum viable products (MVPs). ​

Join now to transform healthcare together.​ They’re currently working with 20 teams to support their ideas through their feasibility stage.

How they help?

• From problem to idea
  • Through the public event series, such as Health Hack (17-26 April, 2024) they collaborate with patients, clinicians, healthcare professionals and entrepreneurs to explore solutions to healthcare challenges, such as: Patient engagement and empowerment; Healthcare information quality, access, and interoperability; Value based healthcare (VBHC); Healthcare Professional (HCP) education and adoption of digital tools.
• From idea to MVP
  • The accelerator program offers guidance and support, with experts providing customized coaching on feasibility, prototyping and market readiness. Plus, they provide non-dilutive funding of up to CHF 22,500 per idea.

Benefits

• Extensive networking
  • Connect with digital health leaders and end users through the extensive network.
• Customized coaching
  • Realize your idea with 30+ hours of personalized mentoring from leading experts.
• Enhance your visibility
  • Pitch your digital health startup to investors, partners and users at Day One events.
• Innovation space
  • Collaborate and elevate your skills in the Switzerland Innovation Parks Basel Area workspace​.
• ​Open innovation methodology
  • Co-create your product with patient champions and users for guaranteed success.

Who can apply?

• ​To be eligible for the Innovation Booster program, teams must have at least one research partner and one implementation partner. Research partners can be university research institutes, non-commercial research centers, departmental research institutions or federal research institutes. Implementation partners can be start-ups, SMEs, larger companies, non-profit organizations or others with the potential to contribute to the innovation process.​
• Application requirements: ​​ ​
  • Be a team including a research partner and an implementation partner ​​ ​
  • Be legal entity registered in Switzerland​​ ​
  • Have an idea that fits under one of the Innovation Booster thematic priorities

Is Swiss residency a requirement for applying to the program?

• Innovation boosters aim to promote the economical and societal development of Switzerland, and the ideas must directly contribute to this goal. While international partners can be included in innovation teams, the primary benefit should be for the Swiss economy and society.
• The following conditions apply: ​ ​ ​
  • IBs must award and release the innovation team funding to a Swiss beneficiary ​
  • Swiss implementation partner required in every innovation team and value creation must be in Switzerland.

For more information, visit Basel Area Business & Innovation.