Innovative Health Initiative
The Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) is a public-private partnership between the European Union and the European life science industries, under the EU R&I funding programme Horizon Europe.
Posted on 13.07.2026
Health innovation is a team sport: Niklas Blomberg on the future of Europe’s medtech
How can Europe ensure that groundbreaking health innovations actually reach patients? At the MedTech Forum 2026, we spoke with Niklas Blomberg, Executive Director of the Innovative Health Initiative (IHI), about the critical challenge of bridging the gap between innovation and patient uptake. We explored the role of public-private partnerships in accelerating medtech innovation, the importance […]
Posted on 29.02.2024
The Lifeblood of Europe’s Medical Technology Sector: Collaborative Research and Innovation with Guest Mark Lloyd Davies
How do Europe’s unique R&I environment and opportunities provide fertile ground for our sector’s life changing innovations? In the second episode of MedTech ON AIR, we welcome Johnson & Johnson’s Global Head of Strategic Partnerships and Resource Group (SPRG), Mark Lloyd Davies. Listen in as Mark as shares his insights from his longstanding experience working […]
Posted on 21.01.2022
The Innovative Health Initiative (IHI): the future of Research and Innovation in healthcare in Europe
Six years after the first discussion between MedTech Europe and the European Commission on setting up a public-private partnership in medical technologies, the Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) now becomes operational. Listen to this episode featuring Patrick Boisseau to learn more about the world largest public-private partnership in life sciences, founded by the European Commission and […]
