Bristol businesses innovating in the health and care sectors can learn how to commercialise their products or services by taking part in a free eight-week training programme.
Hosted by Health Innovation West of England, the organisation tasked with putting healthcare innovation at the heart of the NHS in the region, the course is designed to support businesses seeking wider adoption and scale for their innovations. 
Starting on 10 October, the West of England Commercialisation Academy will offer participants weekly workshops guiding them through the development of their strategic commercialisation plans.
It will be staged in partnership with Triple Chasm, a Cambridge-based management consultancy that has developed a holistic data-driven framework following research into around 3,000 products taken to market.
The course is open to companies, individuals innovators and voluntary community and social enterprises with an adoption-ready health and care innovation with some level of early traction, ideally already selling into the NHS.
They can be based anywhere in the UK.
Triple Chasm chief operating officer and co-founder Sam Dods said: “We’re really excited to be working with the Health Innovation West of England team – supporting a number of later-stage health and care innovators to navigate the most challenging stage of the commercialisation journey from successful prototyping and early customer traction to development of a scalable business model.”
Health Innovation West of England deputy director of programmes Alex Leach added: “Health Innovation West of England is committed to supporting impactful innovations gain traction across the NHS – something we know can be extremely challenging.
“We believe this programme from Triple Chasm will upskill innovators with additional tools and knowledge and will offer a substantial benefit to successful companies.”
Applications close on 8 September. For more information, click here
Health Innovation West of England, previously The West of England Academic Health Science Network (AHSN), is based in the Future Space innovation hub on UWE Bristol’s Frenchay campus, from where it champions healthcare innovators across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, Bath & North East Somerset, Gloucestershire, Swindon and Wiltshire.
