Siish is a project where Sweden’s seven university hospital regions, together with the
surrounding innovation support system, have joined forces to accelerate the
implementation of innovations in Swedish healthcare.
Based on six development areas identified in the feasibility study, the project began with an
extensive peer review process. The results were carried forward into three national and 21
regional improvement initiatives which, since the start of the project, have delivered a
number of concrete outcomes and created visible improvements.
Among the results are: a value model for calculating the benefits of innovations, an
innovation law network for regional legal counsels, and a new model for more effective
collaboration between the universities’ innovation offices. The project concludes with a
second round of peer reviews, focusing on results, impacts, and lessons learned.
Goal
The goal is to promote and spread the success factors noted in the preliminary study, to overcome proven obstacles and to create greater collaboration and a more uniform way of working in the implementation of innovations, by:
- Streamline the development of innovations in the value chain from needs and early ideas to deployment.
- Deepen understanding and identify and further develop successful ways to spread and implement innovations widely, throughout the country.
- Concretize, develop and disseminate common best practice methods for measuring the impact of innovation.
Support from Swelife
SEK 297,000 has been used for the project’s feasibility study.
Swelife has granted the main project SEK 15 millions.
In addition, there is co-financing from participating parties throughout the years.
Principal applicant organization
The Västra Götaland Region – The Innovation Platform (VGR)
Project partners
Region Skåne; Innovation Skåne
Lunds universitet; LU Innovation, Smile Incubator AB
Region Stockholm; Nationella och internationella affärer, Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset, KI
Innovations
Region Uppsala; Region Uppsala Innovation
Uppsala universitet; UU Innovation, Uppsala Innovation Center AB
Region Västerbotten; Innovation och Partnerskap
Umeå universitet; UU Holding, Uminova Innovation
Västra Götalandsregionen; Innovationsplattformen
Sahlgrenska Science Park, Forsknings- och Innovationskontoret GU
Region Örebro; Innovationsenhet FoU
Örebro Innovationskontor, Inkubera
Region Östergötland; Förbättring och Innovation
Linköping Universitet; LiU Innovation, LEAD
Time frame
Preliminary project: February-June 2022, main project: December 2022-December 2025
Contact
The project’s e-mail address: siish@swelife.se
Project manager: Ann Lindgård, Västra Götaland region
ann.lindgard@vgregion.se
Jeanette Tuval, Karolinska University Hospital
jeanette.tuval@regionstockholm.se