1. Welsh Health Innovation Technology Accelerator
ACCELERATE

2. Overview
ACCELERATE is a proposed partnership project from three Welsh universities and the Life Sciences Hub Wales, supported by the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Services Group
£24 million budget with co-funding requested from the WEFO ERDF Research and Innovation call and partner match
Final business planning stage, aiming to secure approval by end of March 2018

3. ACCELERATE aims
To support and accelerate the translation of ideas from the health and care system into new technology products and services
To accelerate the deployment and adoption of new technology products and services into health and care, to create lasting economic value in Wales

4. ACCELERATE objectives
ACCELERATE will use a range of approaches, co-ordinated and structured as an all-Wales system:
an open collaborative innovation model to present health challenges and needs externally, inviting new technology solutions
a living laboratory approach to test and refine economically viable, real world solutions
a managed pipeline of service-user, clinician and academic led innovations, ensuring a blend of “technology-push” and “market-pull” approaches

5. ACCELERATE model

6. ACCELERATE process Review Delivery Planning Triage Engagement
Sources suitable innovation projects
Triage
Triage innovation projects to assess their needs
Planning
Develop personalized plan to accelerate project
Delivery
Deliver planned assistance to accelerate project
Review
Review assistance against baseline
ACCELERATE process

7. ACCELERATE engagement
ACCELERATE will engage widely throughout Wales, supported by established business development capability reaching through sector value and supply-chains
ACCELERATE will be co-ordinated through the Life Sciences Hub Wales, in order to present a single all-Wales ‘front door’ for innovation and external engagement
To retain sectoral and regional focus, and to link to organisational expertise, ACCELERATE will deliver targeted development projects through the three thematic centres

8. ACCELERATE outputs Outputs focussed on economic impact
Patents registered
Enterprises supported
Jobs created
Private investment induced
New to the firm / market products
Enterprise cooperating with research institutions

9. Unmet clinical need focused on bedside technologies
ACCELERATE case study
Unmet clinical need focused on bedside technologies
Company proposes new clinical innovation for the bedside testing of infection
ACCELERATE assesses the needs of project before agreeing a detailed plan with HTC, ATIC, CIA
HTC provides expertise to develop the technology to optimise the efficacy of infection identification
Following optimisation ATIC provides research and technical expertise to develop an initial prototype
Private sector design and manufacture will be engaged through the LSHW to progress development
CIA will enable the pilot testing of the prototype in a hospital environment
Project is reviewed by ACCELERATE to assess the impact (e.g. creation of new IP or new to market products

10. Contact
Steve Conibear Life Sciences Hub Wales Tel: