

Population health is inextricably linked to population wealth.
The Leeds City Region’s world-leading concentration of excellence in healthtech positions it perfectly to capitalise on what is a globally burgeoning market.
One of the Leeds City Region’s ambitions is to accelerate and scale healthtech innovation which drives forward improvements in population health and economic growth.
To achieve this, the innovation ‘pathway’ must be strong at each stage, from discovery to development and finally, deployment.
If not, then innovations can falter, fade or ultimately fail.
A strong innovation pathway means
With our regional healthtech partners, we’ve been ‘mapping the gaps’ in that pathway and discussing how we manage them. Having consulted a range of industry, corporate and public sector partners, in 2021 we will provide support to strengthen this pathway.
Using our region’s existing strengths and assets, we:
Our healthtech partnership will support our ambitions to position Leeds City Region as the engine of health ideas and innovation that can drive levelling up, not just for our region’s economy, but the nation.
It will contribute significantly to the post Covid-19 economic and health recovery.
Our work will help
grow the number of new healthtech start-ups
retain and supporting existing scale up healthtech businesses
attract healthtech companies which can meet the needs of our residents and have the potential to scale their products nationally and internationally
improve people’s health across the Leeds City Region by deploying evidence-based healthtech solutions.
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See more in our 2021 report: Think big, start small scale fast. Please click here.
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