Royal Norwegian Consulate General in HoustonNorway has a rapidly growing health tech and life science ecosystem. This ecosystem is strongly supported by academic and research institutions, government organizations, and four industry clusters. Incubators are also present in most university cities to support entrepreneurship and new industry groups.
The four complimentary clusters represent distinct areas within the health system value chain and are:
Norway Health Tech
The Life Science Cluster
Norwegian Smart Care Cluster
Oslo Cancer Cluster
Through these clusters Norway is emerging as a strong player within digital health, diagnostics and therapeutics, oncology and vaccines. In this robust environment, new solutions are steadily being developed and investors are showing confidence in this sector by supporting these developments.
With additional support from various government players like Innovation Norway and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its Houston-based Royal Norwegian Consulate General in Houston, the industry is poised for continued growth.
Team Norway Contacts:
Royal Norwegian Consulate in Houston:
Kari Anne Lien, Senior Advisor
Kari.A.Lien@mfa.no
Innovation Norway
Lori Woloshyn, Health Team Lead Americas
Lori.woloshyn@innovationnorway.no
Norway Health Tech
Trine Radmann, Head of International Operations
Trine.Radmann@norwayhealthtech.com
The Life Science Cluster
Hanne Mette Dyrlie Kristensen, CEO
hannemette@tlsc.no
Smart Care Cluster
Arild Kristensen, CEO
arild@valide.no
Oslo Cancer Cluster
Ketil Widerberg, CEO
kw@oslocancercluster.no
DEMO DAY PRESENTING COMPANIES
Tidewave
Tidewave R&D is a health tech company focusing on assistive aids for people with movement disabilities. Our core activity is development, whereof the turning mattress is the first product in our portfolio. Several research studies have shown strong values of health benefits and savings of using the Tidewave turning mattress compared to manual repositioning.
Ledidi
Whatever your data holds, Ledidi provides an all-in-one solution for collecting, structuring, analysing and visualising your data within a safe digital environment – designed for collaboration.
HoloCare
HoloCare researches and develops personalized holographic imaging together with clinicians for clinicians, with a goal to one-day enable better medical care and surgical planning.
Age Labs
Age Labs is a Norwegian molecular diagnostics company that discovers, develops and commercializes diagnostic tests for the early detection of age-related diseases. Our pipeline includes a biological age predictor and a test predicting the severity of COVID-19 infection. Our service includes evaluating epigenetic drug effects for use in clinical trials.
Lifeness
Our goal is to help both health professionals and patients to overcome the difficulties with lifestyle changes. We have developed a digital medical platform for health clinics and their employees and patients. Both health professionals and patients have been working closely with us to make the best user experience. This has been extremely important for us to make sure the system works in a smooth and efficient way.
