Outlook 2025: collaboration on research, innovation and implementation becomes even more necessary

With the start of seventeen new research programs and eight Medical Delta Living Labs, 2024 was a new milestone for our partnership. It lays the foundation for even more Medical Delta collaboration on innovation and health. And that is desperately needed.

Not just for healthcare; also because fewer resources become available for science and innovation. An unpleasant situation that will affect us all, including 'The Netherlands Ltd.', directly or indirectly.

In order to be able to take steps, we will have to be innovative with the innovation process itself. Advised by a review committee and with input from (potential) participants in research programs and living labs, we have come up with a nice new multi-year program this year. An important principle is that research alone is not sufficient to implement innovations in healthcare sustainably and effectively. If we want to keep healthcare accessible, staffed and affordable, we have to collaborate more, and sometimes differently.

With health practice on board

In the coming years, we will broaden our field of work from 'medical technology' to 'health and innovation' and we will even more actively encourage collaboration between science and health practice. From the start, we add the expertise, knowledge and skills of developers, healthcare and health practice professionals, end users, policy makers, practical educators and many others to the 'interdisciplinary' collaboration between scientists from various research fields. With one foot in research and the other in practice. In this way, we will continue to build a strong transdisciplinary partnership in the province of Zuid-Holland in the coming years.

By doing so, the Medical Delta ecosystem accelerates implementations of sustainable innovations in health practice, with a focus on four clusters, called 'societies': 'Care', 'Prevention', 'Transformation' and 'Sustainability & Greening'.

More than great results

The foundation for this collaboration was laid in the Medical Delta programming 2019-2024. The scientific programs and living labs that were set up during this period have achieved great results: scientific publications, new insights and promising innovations and projects that find their way into healthcare. An overview of the results can be found in the brochure below; a short summary in the video below:

The numbers speak for themselves. But not everything can be expressed in numbers. Perhaps even more valuable are the lasting contacts that have been made. They form the basis for new projects, research and insights – including for the new Medical Delta programming that started festively on October 10.

Collaborative collaborations

Together with the long-standing collaborations in Zuid-Holland, we feel the responsibility to actively seek to strengthen the cooperation between those partnerships. For example, we collaborate with Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities on research and education programs such as the Sustainable Healthcare Thesis Lab.

We are organizing our upcoming annual conference together with Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities and ZHIA. The content of this working conference is co-designed by Convergence, Delft Health Initiative, InnovationQuarter and Leiden Bio Science Park, among others.

We cordially invite you to be an active participant in this and experience for yourself how these partnerships and organizations complement each other. You are very welcome to our joint conference on Tuesday, April 8, 2025 in Delft, because now that innovation and research are under pressure, good cooperation is even more necessary. You can register here.

For now we wish you happy holidays!

On behalf of the Medical Delta team,

Drs. David de Glint, Managing Director
Prof. Dr. Frank Willem Jansen, Chairman

Overview brochure

Download the brochure as a PDF