Business Region Göteborg AB is a non-profit company that works to strengthen and develop trade and industry in the Gothenburg region. The goal is to contribute to sustainable growth, a high level of employment and diversity in trade and industry in the region. At Business Region Göteborg AB we focus our efforts on the following specific areas such as Business development; Projects promoting clusters and industries; Marketing the region nationally and internationally; Creating and collaborating with international networks; Tailor-made solutions for companies wanting to establish a new business in the region as well as for companies wanting to expand an existing business.

Connected Health, founded by the Science Park Tehnopol, is a country-wide partnership between health-related stakeholders in Estonia, who are committed to accelerating the adoption of connected health solutions, on an international scale and on commercial terms. Connected Health connects you with the Estonian health innovation ecosystem – we help you to find information or partners, so you can start taking advantage of the unique environment Estonia offers.

ExecMind is an international Executive Search boutique company focused on recruitment of mid- and high-level management in Life Science and IT/Technology industry. We are located in Poland, but we cover all European countries, including Baltic countries, West and Central Eastern Europe, South Europe and Middle East. We decided to be highly specialized company and thanks to our understanding of the industry we effectively help our Clients to expand their teams and businesses. Sectors we specialize in are (1) Life Science: pharmaceutical, biotechnology and chemical industry, medical technology & equipment, telemedicine, medical care, clinical research, food production; (2) IT / Technology: hardware, software, big data, cloud computing, security, IT services, electronics & optical industry, bioinformatics

People are often afraid to start their own project or business. Common problems include lack of know-how and co-founders, lack of money, unknown risks etc. Garage48 is here to change that mindset and show that it's all about positive "let's do it" attitude, creative team members and a motivating deadline. Less talk, more action! Garage48 event series started in Estonia in April 2010 and have expanded to other countries in Northern Europe and Africa since then. All Garage48 events are held in English and have ~100 international participants. Participants have different skills, ranging from software development to design, marketing, sales and entrepreneurship. Garage48 events usually start at 5pm on a Friday evening. All participants gather together in a big room and pitch about 30 to 40 ideas on stage. Each idea is put on the wall and everyone can choose their favourite idea and team. Usually about 12-15 ideas will be selected and teams start working.

Healthy Culture Action Tank is a nonprofit research organization focused on patient experience in the digital transformation of healthcare. In our reports we address major societal challenges that the industry faces today from the point of view of patients – from decision-making processes to ethics in big data and biotechnology. We also run two mentoring programs for health tech startups: Patient Experience Canvas for implementing customer experience strategies and Change Adaptation Patterns for designing shifts in habits that impact the spread of noncommunicable diseases.

Horn Publishing was established in 1995 in Oslo, upon request by Norway’s export councils, to create hardcopy publications that showcase the most important industries, industry organizations and companies alongside updated editorial content. The company’s method was proven so successful that Sweden, Denmark and, across the north sea, the United Kingdom, began requesting similar publications for their own leading industries. One of the publications that spawned from demand was ‘Life Science in Sweden’, a hardcover book showcasing the creative and innovative developments that have turned Sweden into a global market leader.

Bright ideas are worth collecting! Aalborg University Hospital has an Ideas Clinic that collect and process proposed new solutions, products or services to enhance the daily lives of patients and staff. Employees and patients at hospitals in Northern Denmark can turn to the Ideas Clinic where specialists will assist in transforming an idea into reality or finding a solution to a problem. Whether the solution ends up being a product that can be patented and sold or a simple change in workflow that can benefit patients and employees, the Ideas Clinic is there to help.

IMDS aims to help patients and medical device partners around the world with the best possible solutions to increase quality of life, amongst others by producing and distributing the NHancer (a unique guide wire support catheter) and NDurance (a one-of-a-kind hydrophilic medical coating). Your medical innovation can come to life at IMDS, providing complete prototyping, development, regulatory approvals and manufacturing.

InnoBaltica focus on innovation in the Baltic Sea Region. The main goals are (1) To create strong links and effective cooperation between academic and business entities toward implementation of innovative products; (2) To increase the competence level of the regional innovative processes’ managers and the cooperation networks’ leaders; (3) To attract investors for the Pomeranian innovation offer. The core activities focus on inspiring and stimulating the development processes as well as the implementation of key projects. InnoBaltica is administrator and coordinator of two major Pomeranian clusters BioEkoChem & KlimaPomerania.

Innogate supports private and public partners in developing and networking skills and other assets that are important to accelerate entrepreneurship, innovation, value addition and competitiveness. Services include: knowledge services such as market and competitiveness analysis, research and training activities; management services such as project development, project implementation and project result multiplication; and international co-operation services such as cluster-to-cluster collaboration and trade facilitation. Innogate has worked with a number of industries including agro-processing, life-science, IT and cleantech – and in diverse economic contexts.

The Innovation Synergy Foundation was established to support young scientist and graduate students in development of innovative Life Science projects with high potential of applicability and commercial value. Our efforts focus on health technologies, pharmacy and biotech sectors. With the SynergyPlatform programme we support entrepreneurial development of the scientific community and assist in scientific grants applications with a great help from the Foundation Scientific Board. Together with our partners PRO SCIENCE Poland LTD and VTTF Fund we offer a full range of services in technology transfer, business consulting and investment. Contact us at: office@innovationsynergy.org

JPIF aims to create high returns by focusing on investments in Life Science companies with visible value inflection points. The fund is based in the Netherlands with an experienced, international team operating out of Warsaw, Poland. JPIF will invest in early and mid stage Life Science companies in Central and Eastern Europe with an investment holding period of 3-5 years. In addition the JPIF team will also look at Polish companies which have licensed, partnered or acquired technologies from abroad. JPIF's aim is to create a high return investment portfolio that leverages the Polish life science cababilities

MetGen is a Finnish company that develops disruptive enzymatic products that enable significant efficiency improvements in the pulp and paper and biofuels industries, as well as removal of toxic micro-pollutants from waste water. The company offers enzymatic solutions for the pre-treatment of a variety of lingo-cellulosic biomass. MetGen provides enzymes that dramatically save energy at the refining step in the pulp and paper industry. In the advanced biofuel sector, MetGen enables production of low cost lingo-cellulosic sugars. MetGen's competitive advantage is the ability to tailor or adapt enzymes to meet each customer’s segment specific needs.

Metis Baltic is a Research and Technological Development management company with extensive experience in research project proposal preparation; consultation regarding RTD funding sources; intellectual property management; commercialisation of research results. Metis Baltic offers wide spectrum assistance for researchers from universities, research centres and private organisations in preparation of European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme proposals, and well as proposals for Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme, EUREKA, EUROSTARS, and Structural funds in all research areas.

Bringing together the best talents in Life Science, offering amazing networking and partnering opportunities, providing inputs and content on the most recent trends. NLSDays attracts leading decision makers from the Life Science sector, not only from biopharma and medtech but also from finances, research and regulatory authorities. Based on cutting-edge and advanced partnering and networking tools, NLSDays showcases the best the Nordic region has to offer.

We at Nordic Lokalkapital believe in entrepreneurs. We believe in business owners and entrepreneurship. Therefore, we are building our organization through collaboration with other entrepreneurs who run businesses anywhere in Jämtland. What we do not find in Jämtland we will find in the rest of Sweden or internationally.

Papilion is a design studio in Tartu, Estonia and has designed the web for ScanBalt fmba. Papilion offers beautiful & functional web & graphic design, brand & identity creation, UX planning and wireframing, E-commerce solutions, payment systems, expert level programming, high quality HTML/CSS/JS coding, responsive web design and mobile first solutions, search engine optimization. The following Content Management Systems are used: WordPress, Textpattern, Voog

Pro Science Poland is an innovative company created on the basis on the experience and knowledge of its employees. Pro Science interacts with the academic community in order to facilitate the transfer of the academic knowledge and experience into an innovative economical sectors. The company provides support for technology transfer, intellectual property counseling and investments assessment as well as application processes for project financing. Substantially important part of our company's activity is organization of training, workshops and conferences. The company also provides service in the following fields: professional translations, market research, public relations and marketing.

Share equipment, services, facilities and knowledge with other organizations in the ScanBalt BioRegion. B2B sharing Marketplace for renting out and sell idle capacity, facilities, and staff. On here, we unite supply and demand, and facilitate organizations to generate additional turnover and lower costs through asset sharing. 30 % discounts for members of ScanBalt. The ScanBalt Sharing Marketplace is a product of the collaboration between ScanBalt fmba and FLOOW2 Healthcare, the first Sharing Marketplace for healthcare organizations.

Scandinavian Care develops and co-invests in modern cancer centers and radiosurgery centers in emerging markets. This is done in co-operation with local established private healthcare providers. The cancer centers are equipped with highly efficient and modern radiosurgery or radiotherapy equipment, related diagnostic, planning and quality assurance tools as well as chemotherapy facilities. We have presently seven part owned centers in clinical operation and further one in the process of being implemented. Scandinavian Care is developing new consultant projects in areas like UAE, India and Nigeria. We are also negotiating other projects in Africa and Asia.

Sentiero logistiq is a consulting and engineering company, based on company activities starting from 1989.The company today is located in Hamburg with a Baltic Sea region partner office in Vilnius. From its early beginnings, sentiero logistiq dedicated its resources towards the logistics and supply chain services in combination with It-services. The long time experience in logistics and supply chain services, infrastructure and special healthcare logistics, will be combined with experience in technical solutions, security and management systems. Healthcare Logistics i. e. pharmaceutical logistics and supply chain as well as specific solutions for Hospital Logistics and Transports are parts of the company services since 1993. The outcomes of the companies services are innovative solutions related to customer requirements and customer organization specific processes and – always with a focus on sustainability.

The Steinbeis Research Center Technology Management Northeast is a service provider and business consultant focused on support for scientist, company and research driven clusters. Our services are targeted to translate research results into industrial applications. Therefore we support in acquiring research funding, in applying and managing research and development projects, in exploiting results and performing public relations. We are member of the Enterprise Europe Network and thus your contact person to connect to European research funding programms.

Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol is a science and business environment for knowledge based companies. Today there are 160+ companies, Tallinn University of Technology and IT College in Tehnopol. Tehnopol provides a unique set of value adding business development services, including incubation, convenient infrastructure and international cooperation opportunities for companies. Life-sciences is one of our four focus areas incl. Estonian Life-Science Community in Google+, international accelerator Accelerace Life, cell therapy laboratory and cluster, medical device prototyping facility, health technology cluster, food and fermetation competence centre and cancer research centre.

Tartu Biotechnology Park was established in December 2001. TBP provides excellent physical infrastructure as well as business development and consultancy services to companies and R&D institutions in the fields of biotechnology, medicine and veterinary medicine. It supports companies in finding cooperation partners and is active in the establishment process of new companies. From September 2005 TBP runs the BioMed Incubator for biotechnology, medical and veterinary businesses. The incubator aims to support the formation and sustainable development of enterprises with grow potential.

Triade is a network organization which supports researchers and entrepreneurs with the development of products, setting up a proper administration, and finding the right accommodation and funding. In order to achieve this, Triade makes use of its national and international networks with extensive knowledge and experience with regards to health care related innovations. Triade is affiliated with the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) and is subdivided in four departments.

Xamk Active Life Lab works with businesses and organisations towards effective preventive health and wellbeing services. Active Life Lab provides free access to its facility and testing possibilities for end users in exchange of their wellbeing data. We specialise in gathering, integrating, analysing, visualising and utilising wellbeing data to create unique value. The wellbeing databank is used to study and develop effective wellbeing services with partners. The Active Life Lab databank includes data on physical activity promotion, sleep & recovery, food choices and health effects of nature & culture. Keywords: Applied research and databank (focus: effectiveness of preventive wellbeing services); Service development and testing projects; Workshops, hackathons, demonstrations and conferences.