Deadlines:
- Deadline of WISH Innovation Booster Competition: 27 June 2020
- Deadline of WISH Innovation Spark Competition: 29 July 2020
The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) opened applications for the WISH Innovation Spark Competition and the WISH Innovation Booster Competition – two new innovation competitions that provide talented entrepreneurs a platform to promote ideas and products aimed at improving the delivery and quality of healthcare.
The WISH Innovation Spark Competition is aimed at entrepreneurs who seek to solve healthcare challenges by developing and validating a scalable project – typically early stage innovations or start-ups. While, the WISH Innovation Booster Competition is aimed at exciting innovations looking to scale up and grow.
WISH Innovation Booster Competition
The WISH 2020 Innovation Booster represents some of the world’s most exciting healthcare innovations, ranging from practical devices and business models to design-based solutions. Those showcasing their innovations share a common goal: driving improvement and excellence in healthcare. Each innovation showcase has the potential to transform global health, both reducing the costs of healthcare delivery and improving the quality of care for patients. The WISH Innovation Booster provides a chance for entrepreneurs to exhibit their healthcare innovations in front of some of the world’s leading health experts, Health ministers, decision-makers, and investors. WISH provides a platform to enable delegates to engage with these exciting ideas that are changing healthcare from the ground up.
WISH Innovation Spark Competition
WISH is keen to highlight some of the most exciting startup innovations in healthcare through its WISH Spark competition. WISH celebrates the spirit of innovation through its WISH Spark Innovators program, which provides a platform for tomorrow’s most promising healthcare leaders. Their innovations include devices, applications, innovative delivery models and design-based solutions that improve quality of care and patient experience, while also reducing the cost of care.
Benefits
- Benefits of being shortlisted:
- Join the WISH summit in Doha
- Showcase to a community of healthcare leaders.
- Meet experts, based on innovation needs.
- One-to-one meetings with investors.
- WISH media support for up to 1 year.
- Join WISH mini-summits and events when relevant.
- Become a WISH innovation program alumni ambassador.
- Benefits of winning:
- Join the WISH summit in Doha
- Showcase to a community of healthcare leaders.
- Meet experts, based on innovation needs.
- One-to-one meetings with investors.
- WISH media support for up to 1 year.
- Join WISH mini-summits and events when relevant.
- Become a WISH innovation program alumni ambassador.
- Mentorship and support for upto 1 year. Opportunity to join an accelerator program
- Win the ‘WISH Innovation Award’.
Shortlisted innovations will be showcased to world-renowned health experts, policy makers and potential investors at the upcoming WISH 2020 summit, to be held at the Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha from November 16-18.
The shortlisted winners of both competitions will be announced in September 2020.
For more information, visit https://www.wish.org.qa/innovationaward/