Academic Health Science Networks work with health and care businesses and individual innovators to help realise the potential of their ideas.
AHSNs provide a wide range of support to innovators, which depends largely on the needs and development stage of their specific innovation. For example, in the case of early-stage innovator support this may include advice and guidance on gaps in an innovator’s value proposition, gaps in their evidence base, and potentially helping to develop a proof-of-concept prototype.
Much of the early work AHSNs do with innovators is around helping them to understand the complexities of the health and care sectors.