Common Contracts

Innovation contract 2012 from the topsector Life Sciences & Health

April 16th, 2012

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  April 16th, 2012

Maintaining and improving an ageing population's quality of life while keeping health- care affordable and sufficiently staffed is one of the "grand challenges" of our time. It is also a major opportunity for the knowledge economy and for the Life Sciences & Health industry in particular: innovations in Life Sciences & Health can help overcome this grand challenge, and these innovations will find ready demand in the health and healthcare market, one of the largest and fastest growing markets in the world. The Dutch Life Sciences & Health "topsector" is in a unique position to develop such innovations. The Netherlands has an outstanding industry, a world-leading knowledge base in fundamental and applied science, an excellent infrastructure of university medical centers and hospitals, entrepreneurial insurers, a well-organized healthcare system, health foundations, patient organizations and cooperative regulatory autho- rities – all working together in a unique infrastructure of public-p