The CMU Portugal Program, supported by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), will sign on April 9th at 2pm, an agreement with NOVA Medical School and the Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE) to launch the CMU Portugal Patient Innovation Accelerator.
This joint Accelerator represents a significant milestone in the healthcare innovation landscape in Portugal, aiming to boost advanced healthcare solutions and foster entrepreneurship in the sector. The Patient Innovation (PI) platform was created in 2014 as the result of CMU Portugal project TEIPL, a Entrepreneurial Research Initiatives (ERIs) launched in 2013.
The Patient Innovation Bootcamp is an acceleration program currently underway and funded by EIT Health is held in Lisbon, Barcelona, and Copenhagen and coordinated by Nova SBE and NOVA Medical School in partnership with Copenhagen Business School, IESE Business School, BioCat.
This year the PI Bootcamp will be held in partnership with CMU Portugal. After the bootcamp, participating startups will advance to an additional acceleration phase, during which they will receive support to expand and develop their businesses at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA.
Following the signature event, the first initiative resulting from this collaboration protocol will be the participation of CMU Portugal in the celebration of the second anniversary of the Haddad Entrepreneurship Institute at Nova SBE, on April 10, 2024, at 5pm.
