Our Purpose:
Support Medical Innovations

Because we know that many interesting ideas are born in laboratories and in the day-to-day work of providing patient care that can improve diagnostics and therapy or help patients cope with health problems. At the same time, however, we are also aware that young people interested in starting up in the healthcare sector, who initially want to turn their ideas into products in small startups, find it particularly difficult in the medical sector.
Start-up projects in the life sciences (e.g. Medical Devices, Digital Health, Therapeutics, Diagnostics) are particularly complex, expensive and risky. This is particularly due to the “4Cs” – Commercialisation, Certification, Clinical Studies, Copyright. Medical products must be specially tested and the approval usually requires clinical studies. In addition, it is a long and expensive road before the costs for a new product are for example reimbursed by the health insurance companies. This why we support the motivated, courageous innovators, in overcoming these high obstacles and thus contribute to successful medical innovation.

How do we promote medical innovations?

Together with our subsidiary, Medical Innovation Incubator GmbH, we promote medical innovations in various dimensions. We support academically and economically active individuals and organizations by bringing their ideas and inventions to practical application through qualification, coaching, financing and founding support. For this purpose , we have initiated the necessary qualification programs, lecture series, partner networks, as well as a company builder platform including a financing program to promote new business ideas.

Our unique approach

Our unique concept helps to overcome the high hurdles for start-up projects in the life sciences. In recent years, we have systematically analyzed the differences between innovations in general and medical innovations in particular. The insights gained from this have been translated into the thematic focus areas of the 4Cs (Commercialization, Certification, Clincal Studies, Copyright) and have become the central starting point for all training activities. In this way, the foundation imparts a “Regulatory Thinking®” and thus develops a special but essential way of thinking in the minds of those interested in founding a company. In this way, the complexity to which innovations are exposed on their way into the healthcare market can be managed sustainably, efficiently and independently by the start-up projects. The concept of “Regulatory Thinking®” is the starting point of our actions and runs like a thread through all activities. The added value is also confirmed by the well-known partners who have contributed to the methodology and who now, in particular within the framework of the start-up qualification program 4C Accelerator (see below).

Below you will find an excerpt of our activity’s portfolio. If you would like to learn more about our daily work, please contact us by email.