| Healthcare industry | | | | - a group of UK universities working alongside |
| Innovation and procurement hubs | | | | industry to develop new medical devices. |
| Now companies can approach the NHS with any | | | | Research & development |
| new innovations, thanks to a new 'Stage-Gate' | | | | University research groups |
| process, set up by the regional procurement hub | | | | Research and development in the healthcare |
| re:source, Medilink East Midlands and the | | | | sector features highly across academic institutions |
| Healthcare and Bioscience iNet. This approach is | | | | in the region. The University of Nottingham has a |
| unique across regional procurement in the East | | | | large number of research groups working in the |
| Midlands. | | | | areas of biomaterials and medical devices. The |
| Science parks and innovations | | | | Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing |
| The region is home to a network of incubation, | | | | Engineering at Loughborough University has a |
| innovation and science park facilities including | | | | number of research programmes underway, |
| BioCity, one of Europe's largest bioscience | | | | including healthcare engineering, manufacturing |
| incubators, and No.1 Nottingham Science Park. | | | | processes, mechatronics, optical engineering and |
| There is also a well-established support network | | | | sports technology. Plus, De Montfort University's |
| for life sciences businesses. The innovation | | | | Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing Group is one |
| network iNets were established to help turn | | | | of Europe's leaders in rapid prototyping and tooling. |
| innovative ideas into business opportunities. The | | | | Research collaborations |
| healthcare and bioscience iNet is a consortium | | | | MATCH is a research collaboration between The |
| comprising all the key life science partners based | | | | University of Nottingham, three other leading UK |
| at BioCity and includes Medilink East Midlands, and | | | | universities and a cohort of industrial partners. |
| provides and opportunity for organisations to | | | | MATCH aims to create methods to assess value, |
| exchange knowledge and form collaborations to | | | | from concept to product, thereby supporting the |
| exploit new ideas. | | | | healthcare technology sector and its user |
| The region also benefits from the Health | | | | communities. |
| Technologies Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) | | | | |