From pharmaceuticals to innovation in Europe: in 2015 French-born Sylvie Bove was named CEO of EIT Health, the first European initiative to promote European leadership and competitiveness in health innovation. Bove has 20 years experience managing and directing companies in the field of life sciences. She has overseen the launch of new products while working with large companies in the healthcare sector, such as Coloplast and Ferring Pharmaceuticals, and she helped found the Copenhagen Healthtech Cluster.
These initiatives fall under the acceleration pillar of this European consortium and are geared towards future entrepreneurs, SMEs, start-ups and spin-offs.
This is the first activity organized under the framework of the EIT Health Innovation Fellowships program, which promotes collaboration among masters in health entrepreneurship in Europe
The "Business plan aggregator" awards and the "Headstart" and "Proof of concept" calls for proposals are geared towards business ideas, SMEs, spinoffs and startups
