The TechMed Centre is a leading innovation hub at the University of Twente, focused on developing and implementing technologies that improve health and healthcare. By connecting researchers, clinicians, industry partners, and other stakeholders, the Centre fosters collaboration and supports projects that turn innovative ideas into real-world solutions. Our expertise spans a wide range of services, funding opportunities, and tech transfer, all aimed at accelerating impact in healthcare and the MedTech sector.
Ecosystem
The University of Twente plays a central role in the Twente and Eastern Netherlands ecosystem. As an innovation hub, the TechMed Centre connects researchers, healthcare providers, industry partners, government bodies, funding organisations, and societal groups to boost collaboration and drive healthcare innovation. Our partners value us as a reliable and trusted collaborator who delivers on our promises.
Services & Support
The TechMed Innovation Hub offers a broad range of services and support to partners inside and outside our existing network. These services include, but are not limited to, innovation brokerage, shared research projects, facility sharing, knowledge transfer and funding programs.
Facility sharing & Testbed
The TechMed Centre is an open innovation landscape that aims to improve the medical impact and speed up the economic return of new healthcare concepts and products. By sharing our state-of-the-art facilities, we aim to boost the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of medical innovations. We typically offer two types of facility sharing, each with tailored fees:
- Short-term usage: companies, hospitals or healthcare associations rent specific labs or training facilities for a couple of hours or a few days. In this case, a simple usage agreement and hour rate based fee is applied.
- Long-term usage: startups (primarily UT spin-offs) using specific lab facilities of the research group with whom they collaborate for a period of 1 year to start the first business activities without investing in their own lab facilities. For this purpose, we develop tailored facility-sharing agreements.
Funds & Voucher programmes
To actively boost innovation and research programs, the TechMed Centre invests in joint initiatives via funds and voucher programs, such as the Pioneer in HealthCare, TURBO program, Top Technology Twente – Connecting Industries Call, and the corporate funding lifecycle, together with our partners. These programs have a wide variation in available budget, partner participation and topics.