Health & Care Network

Goal

Eight regional partners – Voka (Flemish network of enterprises) – Chamber of Commerce Kempen, LiCalab, Agency for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Hospital Network Kempen, VanRoey.be, Thomas More University of Applied Sciences, Province of Antwerp and the Regional platform for wellbeing Kempen - took the initiative to set up the Health & Care Network Kempen. The network was launched in November 2016 at Janssen Pharmaceutica in Beerse at an event with 170 participants.

The healthcare sector in transformation

We are facing many challenges in the area of care and welfare. The sector is in full transformation, and entrepreneurship is becoming more important. Kempen has a lot of  innovative initiatives, for example around personalised care, rehabilitation technology, assistive technology, e-health, big data...

Future-proof collaboration

The region has many assets: an unique know-how in knowledge institutions, talented entrepreneurs and a progressive care and welfare sector. The Health & Care Network Kempen joins forces to stimulate innovation and increase the chances of success. A strong cooperation will lead to future-proof and high-quality care and welfare in the Kempen and by extension Flanders and Europe.

The network works on 6 domains:

• testing and validation: living lab environment
• joint services and facilities
• scaling up of innovation to the consumer market
• innovative financing instruments
• cooperation between education and the labour market
• attractive region for innovation