1 Date The Baltic Sea Region as One Test Site for Development of Health Care Products and Services Lars Lindsköld, PhD. eHealth Department, Region Västra Götaland (SE) CEO, Image Repository Board member, Swedish Association Medical Informatics, SFMI Vice Chairman, ScanBalt ® fmba

Lecturer, Title, Place 2 Date Snapshot of ScanBalt BioRegion 50 university hospitals 60 universities within health/life science incl. 25 with a focus on Medtech More than 50 health care clusters and networks 75 health care sector science parks (from “The Health Economy in the Baltic Sea Region – Challenges and Opportunities, a Market Analysis”, Nord/LB for the BSHR HealthPort project Nov 2013). In total more than 3000 health and life science companies, estimate by ScanBalt 2015

Lecturer, Title, Place 3 Date Some BSR Challenges (examples) - demographic shifts - raising costs of health care - lack of commercial exploitation of ideas from health care systems - low uptake of innovative solutions into health care systems - significant differences within BSR in life expectation, health and prevention - reduction of waiting periods and waiting lists (except Germany) - reduction in health care provision between urban and rural areas - brain drain, talent attraction and talent retention Attract and Promote Coordinated Investments - affect and align regional agendas when mutual beneficial - promote coordinated investments between various EU funds and national/regional public/private financing - set up framework for a health innovation ecosystem in the BSR - develop new forms of trans-national financing and funds Some BSR Opportunities (examples) - through innovation promote more efficient BSR health care systems - facilitate trans-national market access for SME products and services - facilitate trans-national access to BSR health care systems to remove waiting periods and waiting lists - match competencies along the value-chain into BSR health innovation platforms - create shared modules and tools between regional clusters supporting SMEs, tech transfer, research and education - be an add-on to regional efforts to promote SME products and services - create a BSR business identity within health economy to attract investors and talents - promote globalization of regional clusters and their business competencies, products and services Some BSR Health Economy Facts (examples) - health and social services sector emerged as a major stabilizing factor for both regional and national economic development during crisis - increasing demand for technical medical equipment driven by building and modernization of hospitals - excellent market opportunities for medical technology across the whole of the Baltic Sea Region -trend across BSR for outpatient facilities and treatment -growing privatisation and concentration processes - niche market in e.g. sports’ services and technologies - health tourism has high potential - SMEs the basis for a globally competitive BSR health economy - overall the potential of the BSR Health Economy significant and above average Why Baltic Sea Region Collaboration within Health Economy? Sources: LB/Nord Analysis ”The Health Economy in the Baltic Sea Region - Challenges and Opportunities”, Jan 2014; “Driving cross-sectoral innovation in health and life sciences - An Innovation Agenda for the Baltic Sea Region Health Economy”, Nov 2013, both by BSHR HealthPort, co-financed by the Baltic Sea Region programme 2007 – 2014.

Lecturer, Title, Place 4 Date BSR as One Test Site for Development of Health Care Products and Services A benefit for: SMEs which faster and easier can bring their innovations to the market Patients as it improves the health care offered Regions as it means more efficient use of existing research and innovation infra-structure and economic development

Lecturer, Title, Place 5 Date Current Project Activities: 6 mutually coordinated sup-topics (4 concept notes with “green light  ”, 1 a Horizon2020 funded project). HealthShare  : Fighting hospital acquired infections and bacterial resistance in the Baltic Sea region with new diagnostic tools and services. Coordinator ScanBalt ® fmba InnoDataShare  : Sharing existing health data infrastructures to facilitate innovative health- related product development in the Baltic Sea region. Coordinator Competence Center on Health Technologies, EE. The Baltic Fracture Competence Centre, BFCC  : Leveraging knowledge for better care in ageing societies in the Baltic Sea Region. Coordinator Life Science Nord management GmbH, GE. InnoHealth: Gateway to validate health innovations by user involvement in the Baltic Sea region. Coordinator Tallinn Tehnopol, EE. DanuBalt: Novel Approaches in Tackling the Health Innovation and Research Divide in the Danube and Baltic Sea Region (H2020, initiated Jan 2015). Coordinator Steinbeis Europe- Zentrum. InnoMarBio  : Innovative R&D and SME Infrastructures in Marine Biotech (new products and processes for medical applications, pharmaceutics, cosmetics, food, or industrial applications). Coordinator Frauenhofer, GE.

Lecturer, Title, Place 6 Date Process for Baltic Sea Region as One test Site Presentation June 16, EUSBSR Summit Exhibition booth June 15-16, EUSBSR Summit DanuBalt Stakeholder Forum, June 17, Jürmala: Outcome – Investment catalogue Project Accelerator Day/ScanBalt Forum, Stockholm, September 8: Outcome – Project ideas and initial project consortia Plenary session “BSR as one test site…”, Nordic Life Science Days, Stockholm, September 9 Continuous dialogue between regions, clinics, clusters, SMEs and funding sources: Out come – Input to Project Accelerator Days 2015 and 2016 Monitoring and evaluation of implementation done by ScanBalt ExCo Guiding Frame: ScanBalt Strategy : Solving Societal Challenges on Top of Europe ScanBalt ExCo at the Estonian Embassy in Berlin Dec 2014

Lecturer, Title, Place 7 Date Make it easier for businesses to explore the BSR as a market and development site Promote shared use of knowledge and innovation structures and universities. Assist regions to gain economic development from BSR collaboration The fundamental reason for the existence of ScanBalt® fmba is the closeness to the regions and regional networks and their societal challenges.

Lecturer, Title, Place 8 Date Shared Innovation Infra Structure ScanBalt is a shared (macro-regional) innovation infra-structure between BSR regions with focus on establishing the Baltic Sea region as one test site for health care products and services. Smart Specialization Platform ScanBalt since 2001 acts as a smart specialization platform identifying key competencies of the regions and promoting coordinated trans-national investments between ESIF, H2020, regional and national public-private financing. Key Activities: -Think Tank: Continuous dialogue between regions, clinics, clusters, SMEs and funding sources -Accelerator: Workshops for concrete projects ideas -Match-making: Between health care and tech providers, investors and decision makers in collaboration with existing events -Communication: ScanBalt News (approx subscribers), A new virtual platform as an active tool for innovation and smart specialization (expected 2016)

Lecturer, Title, Place 9 Date Members of ScanBalt ® fmba

Lecturer, Title, Place 10 Date ScanBalt Business Club scanbaltbusiness.com