OULUHEALTH, FIN­LAND

Oys­ter

OYS­TER will serve as a cut­ting-edge dig­i­tal health Research, Devel­op­ment, and Inno­va­tion (RDI) cen­ter and strate­gi­cal­ly it is designed to syn­er­gize with the new Oulu Uni­ver­si­ty Hos­pi­tal OYS2030. In the future OYS­TER will pro­vide a unique plat­form for mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary col­lab­o­ra­tion and pub­lic-pri­vate part­ner­ships to nur­ture evi­dence based (val­ue-based) health­care edu­ca­tion, research, inno­va­tions, and solu­tions for the ben­e­fit of patient well­be­ing and soci­ety at large, all under one roof. OYS­TER will be advanced through col­lab­o­ra­tive efforts involv­ing stake­hold­ers with­in the OuluHealth ecosys­tem.

Oys­ter Incu­ba­tor

OYS­TER will con­sist of mul­ti­ple ele­ments. The first ele­ment to be ini­ti­at­ed is the OYS­TER Incu­ba­tor, which has opened its doors in fall 2024. The OYS­TER Incu­ba­tor is pri­mar­i­ly tar­get­ed at start­ing com­pa­nies as well as researchers, stu­dents, pro­fes­sion­als, and inno­va­tors inter­est­ed in devel­op­ing inno­va­tions for the social and health­care. The activ­i­ties are par­tic­u­lar­ly aimed at experts in dig­i­tal health, health tech­nol­o­gy, the health and well-being indus­try, and diag­nos­tics.

The oper­a­tion of the OYS­TER Incu­ba­tor com­pris­es two stages.

1. In the first phase, a busi­ness idea is devel­oped and val­i­dat­ed. The pro­gram will span 100 days, approx­i­mate­ly 14 weeks. The idea val­i­da­tion phase has start­ed on Sep­tem­ber 2024.
2. The sec­ond phase is specif­i­cal­ly ded­i­cat­ed to devel­op­ing busi­ness oper­a­tions. The busi­ness devel­op­ment phase will start on ear­ly 2025.
   

OYS­TER Incu­ba­tor activ­i­ties in a nut­shell

• The OYS­TER Incu­ba­tor will be deliv­ered as a hybrid pro­gram; edu­ca­tion ses­sions will take place approx­i­mate­ly once a week or every two weeks at the OYS­TER Incu­ba­tor premis­es in Kon­tinkan­gas. Addi­tion­al­ly, there will be online meet­ings and offline mate­ri­als pro­vid­ed.
• The train­ing is free of charge, and appli­ca­tions are open to any­one, includ­ing innovators/teams out­side Oulu.
• Train­ing will cov­er prod­uct and busi­ness devel­op­ment in health & life sci­ences, busi­ness mod­els, reg­u­la­tions, fund­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties, and pitch­ing.
• The ser­vices of the OYS­TER Incu­ba­tor are tai­lored accord­ing to need, aim­ing to sup­port faster mar­ket entry for com­pa­nies, assist in find­ing fund­ing chan­nels, and facil­i­tate the cre­ation of ver­sa­tile net­works to sup­port enter­prise.
• You will also have oppor­tu­ni­ties to build your net­work – we will assist you!

Apply­ing to the Oys­ter Incu­ba­tor

The first appli­ca­tion round for OYS­TER Incu­ba­tor is now closed. Next appli­ca­tion round will be opened in Novem­ber 2024.

Stay tuned!

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More infor­ma­tion

Min­na Komu
Net­work Direc­tor, Coor­di­na­tion of Health and Life Sci­ence ecosys­tem OuluHealth
minna.komu@businessoulu.com