Strategic Commitment 2
Harnessing expertise for optimal innovation
Providing an infrastructure to blend clinical and commercial expertise is vitally important in supporting Scotland’s future healthcare innovation priorities and needs. The ability of InnoScot Health to leverage NHS experience and combine this with commercial business skills, which typically sit outside the sphere of traditional healthcare roles, is essential in translating healthcare innovations from original idea to widespread adoption.
InnoScot Health will continue to provide trusted, high quality advice on a pan-Scotland basis, including intellectual property advice, medical device regulation, funding, product development and commercialisation; and will remain responsive to advances across medicine, science, government and NHS policy, legal and regulatory affairs that impact on healthcare innovation process, ensuring the expertise of InnoScot Health remains dynamic and reflective of a modern health landscape.
What success will look like by 2026?
- An internationally recognised health innovation environment combining the best clinical and commercial expertise.
How InnoScot Health Will Help Deliver This Success
- We will provide an expert, full-service innovation advisory capability that is adaptive to new policy, rules, regulations, market conditions and emerging technologies
- We will catalyse projects rapidly from idea to adoption
- We will support an inclusive, robust and transparent innovation environment encompassing all healthcare pathways
- We will save the NHS time and money
Our Focus
- We will continue to hire the best talent available to strengthen the company’s skill base
- We will maintain ISO 13485 accreditation and a full Quality Management System to support the design and development of medical devices
- We will manage an open process from initial evaluation of a concept through to regulatory approval and rapid market adoption of selected ideas
- We will support the rapid translation of impactful, demand led healthcare innovations into viable products, devices, diagnostics, therapeutics and services
Our Contribution to National and Global Priorities
This commitment aligns with Scotland's National Outcomes in the Health, Economy, and Fair Work and Business categories.
It aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in the Good Health and Wellbeing; Quality Education; Decent Work and Economic Growth; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure; Reduced Inequalities; and Partnerships for the Goals categories.
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