Wellness & Health Innovation Services
We provide a dedicated range of services tailored to the specific needs of companies in the wellness and heath market. We deliver bespoke, high quality support to accelerate the growth of Scottish businesses using our network of partners. Our aim is to create a robust community of companies and partners working within this dynamic sector.
What can we do for you?
A dedicated team of expert advisors will work with you to provide:
- market intelligence
- product, technology and innovation support
- business development
- or ask the expert
If you need our help, contact us.
Market Intelligence
We aim to be the wellness and health innovation experts in Scotland & produce in-depth, tailored reports for your business
With our knowlegde, intelligence from our industry contacts and access to the latest market sources we provide tailored indepth market research and intelligence to Scottish SME's. This is a highly utilised service accessed by most of the clients we have engaged with to date. On submittal of our bespoke market report, one client said:
"We had a novel product, and some ideas about the market, however, the Wellness and Health Innovation Project helped us shape those ideas early on. They quickly understood the product we were working on and produced excellent market research that will help us to win investment to develop the product for market."
Dr Richard Mosses, Dynamic Innovations Limited - March 2009
Our market intelligence service includes:
- tailored market research reports - forecasting/trends/ competitive analysis and partner search
- white papers - lifestyle management & independent/assistive living
- workshops - how to innovate your product or service?
- analyst one-to-one surgeries - ask the experts.
- focus groups - what do the public think?
- market news - what's happening
Business Development
We can make the right connections
We will work intensely with SMEs to develop their value proposition by providing expert advice to shape the business model and identify the appropriate sector specific routes to market. Through our robust network of contacts we will facilitate the right introductions that will make a difference to your business,
"The advice we received was instrumental in shaping some of the key parts of or business model. The WHI team were also very pro-active in opening doors for our business and connecting us with the relevant decision-makers."
Mike Eriksen, DanMedical, July 2009.
Our business development services include:
- business model advice - advice on competition, propositions, diversification, revenue and business models
- making appropriate introductions - partner to SME, Academia to SME, SME to SME, SME to intermediaries
- value chain analysis - potential customers, buying cycles, pricing structure and sales channels
- market advice - Highlighting the market opportunities and evolving landscape.
Product, Technology and Innovation
Whatever stage your idea is at we can assist
We can provide expertise in the areas of concept, feasability, validation and development to take your ideas to market. Our expertise and market knowledge will also help highlight opportunities for diversification into the Wellness and Health sector. This is a core service which has resulted in the development of exciting, new products from Scotland's SME's.
During our analysis of your development life cycle, we will apply some key principles and our approach is to work on a one-to-one basis with clients by providing;
- road mapping - assisting with product definitions and development road maps
- due dilligence - advising on refining the uniqueness and robustness of business propositions
- technology audit - advising on technology competition, IP, risk and scalability
- innovation toolkit - providing support for innovation methodologies
- eco-system analysis - highlighting value chains within the wellness and health marketplace
- brokering - facilitating technical collaborations and connections with relevant partners and stakeholders.
To access any of these free services or to speak to an advisor please contact us.
