Innovation clusters
The Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI) facilitates an innovation cluster approach to support collaboration between academic, business and civic sectors including citizens, health, social care and housing partners.
This collaborative approach allows members to connect and to work together to share knowledge, skills, and experience, in order to innovate on key demand led challenges. The aim of using a cluster approach is to create impactful innovation that will lead to improved outcomes for our communities.
Innovation clusters represent a dynamic collaboration of knowledge, expertise, and skills from policy, healthcare, education, research, and business sectors, all focused on a shared purpose. These clusters are designed to:
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Address Demand-Led Challenges: By gathering and utilising insights, we support innovation in service and product design to meet real-world needs.
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Facilitate Co-ordination and Knowledge Exchange: Through connection and collaboration, we drive innovation activities and enable multi-directional knowledge exchange.
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Build on Existing Community Work: Serving as a clustering mechanism, we enhance the work of innovation community members across specific areas, disciplines, or tasks.
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Foster Collaborative Initiatives: By bringing together people and teams for ideation, projects, and other initiatives, our clusters aim to achieve outcomes greater than the sum of their parts.
These clusters not only promote collaborative ideation but also ensure successful outcomes with significant potential impact.
Key functions
Several key functions are evident within our Innovation Clusters:
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Connectivity: they provide a dedicated space for interaction with the local ecosystem. These spaces can be virtual and physical and should attract a wide range of actors from within each innovation community and beyond.
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Knowledge management: they function as consistent points for knowledge exchange (within Scotland and between and across international partners)
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Activity management: they act as a centre for mobilising and progressing specific innovation activities.
Purpose
Digital Mental Health Innovation Cluster (DMHIC)
A collaboration across industry, academia, and wider public sector services supporting the development and adoption of digital innovation for mental health and wellbeing in Scotland. As a singular virtual point of contact for Scotland, the cluster enables global connection with leading exemplars in Digital Mental Health.
Digital Innovation Hub for Home Hospitalisation (DIH)
The Digital Innovation Hub for Home Hospitalisation (DIH) has been set up to encourage sharing knowledge, collaborating, and innovating across all areas of Home Hospitalisation.
It is an output from the Interreg NWE CHANCE project which brought together a number of SME’s, Hospitals and Universities to develop a Home Hospitalisation Platform to support Heart Failure and is led by DHI on behalf of all other partners.
