At Medical Valley, more than 230 members from business, science, healthcare, networks and politics together generate solutions for the healthcare challenges of today and tomorrow.
At Medical Valley, more than 230 members from business, science, healthcare, networks and politics together generate solutions for the healthcare challenges of today and tomorrow.
The Ecosystem
The Medical Valley ecosystem enables you to exchange information quickly and
easily with all relevant players.
Medical Valley European Metropolitan Region Nuremberg (EMN) is an internationally leading medical technology cluster.
Highly specialized research institutions, internationally leading and at the same time many growing companies are active here. They cooperate closely with world-renowned health research institutions in order to jointly find solutions for the challenges of healthcare today and tomorrow.
Combined with the international market and competitive position of individual players, this provides optimal conditions to enable rapid development of products, processes, and services.
In recent years, numerous significant product innovations have entered the market from the research laboratories of the leading-edge cluster.
The nationally and internationally outstanding position of this economically strong region was additionally strengthened in January 2010 by the appointment of “National Top Cluster” for medical technology by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
In April 2017, Medical Valley, in cooperation with Zollhof and Health Hackers Erlangen, was named one of twelve national “DigitalHubs” by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action – the Digital Health Hub.
Medical Valley EMN e. V., which currently has more than 210 members from business, science, healthcare, networks, and politics, has been acting as the cluster management organization since 2007.
Current activities of Medical Valley EMN include the operation of the innovation centers Medical Valley Center Erlangen and Forchheim, the coordination of the Bavarian Cluster of Medical Technology (in cooperation with Forum MedTech Pharma), the implementation of the Medical Valley Award (award for research teams in pre-founding phases) and the coordination of the platform “Digital medicine/health” in line with Zentrum Digitalisierung. Bayern.
Medical Valley EMN is also a consortium partner of EITHealth, a consolidation of European partners developing new solutions under the pillars “Promote Healthy Living”, “Support Active Ageing” and “Improve Healthcare” as part of Horizon 2020. EIT Health is currently one of the largest health research programs in the world with a budget of up to 80 million euros per year for the next 7 to 15 years.
Medical Valley GmbH, as the commercial platform of the cluster, offers professional support for all business matters regarding healthcare market access consulting, trading consulting as well as acquisition of capital.
In 2019, the dmac – Digital Health Application Center was founded in Bamberg. dmac is another essential hub in the Medical Valley ecosystem and offers support and expertise for companies on their way to digital medicine of today and tomorrow.
Value proposition
We accelerate time-to-market for healthcare innovations.
We drive transdisciplinary cooperations of all relevant stakeholders in order to improve the capabilities to innovate in healthcare.
We create a stimulating atmosphere for the development of best-in-class products, health services and business models.
We accelerate time-to-market for healthcare innovations.
We drive transdisciplinary cooperations of all relevant stakeholders in order to improve the capabilities to innovate in healthcare.
We create a stimulating atmosphere for the development of best-in-class products, health services and business models.
We attract innovative people and companies from all over the world to start creating medical value here, in Medical Valley.
We develop Medical Valley to an internationally visible model region for optimal healthcare delivery.
Activity Fields
Industry
Startups
Research
Health Providers
Politicians
Investors
Citizens
Improvement of capabilities to innovate
New products, services and business models
More successful spin-offs, Startups and SMEs
Infrastructure for innovation optimized time-to-market
The Medical Valley
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