The UK is experiencing the challenge of an aging population in the same way as many other European countries which begs the question, how will we cope? With many of our hospitals full to bursting, the trend has been to find homecare solutions so that patients can be monitored externally. There are many ways in which these technologies find their way into our homes though, in many cases, entrepreneurs with solutions to these challenges find they are turned down repeatedly.

It’s usually credibility that stops organisations like the NHS from taking on solutions that are actually great but untested, particularly on large scales. To address this, business incubation centres have been bringing buyers (like the NHS) and sellers (like Cells4Life’s Dr Jeff Drew) together.

By creating relaxed evenings targeting only one specific sector at a time, the Sussex Innovation Centre in Falmer, Brighton, has repeatedly succeeded to encourage collaboration under its own credible brand name.

The next event on 19 November will see a panel of experts from NHS, Pfizer, BUPA and the Queen Victoria Hospital come together to talk innovation and how new ideas can best be presented to them to be taken forwards. At the same time, three entrepreneurs will showcase their new innovations in health for ten minutes each.

Delegates for the already nearly full event include many European partners from the CLIQ project (see link to the right).

As any business will tell you, trying to get the attention of these significant corporate clients is a major challenge when you are small. So, these events need to happen more and more across the UK if we are to battle the challenges facing our country, particularly in a time of recession.

To learn more about the event, or to register, click the link to the right.