WHAT IS THE COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL OF YOUR RESEARCH OR HEALTH INNOVATION?
The Health Innovation Bootcamp is an immersive, project-focused education program providing curious innovators with the building blocks of entrepreneurship. You and a select group of health care innovators will come together in person over six sessions to explore and validate your innovative ideas for commercial potential through weekly challenges. The program fee ($50 + HST) will be pooled and a total of $1,000 will be awarded to the participant who completes all challenges and has the best pitch in the final session.
EDUCATE. CONNECT. CHALLENGE.
Bootcamp participants will start to build their business foundation and understand high level entrepreneurship/business concepts and terminology. Students are encouraged to use each session to network with one another and bounce ideas off each other, and they are challenged to apply the concepts learned in the bootcamp to their own innovation by completing weekly challenges.
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Key Takeaways
- Identify and prioritize unmet healthcare needs.
- Validate problems with real-world evidence.
- Understand the impact of solving the right problem.
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- Craft a clear and compelling value proposition.
- Analyze market gaps and competitive dynamics.
- Map key stakeholders and potential users.
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- Develop an MVP tailored to healthcare needs/current state.
- High-level overview of IP and key regulatory channels (Health Canada, FDA).
- How to think of compliance within health settings.
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- Learn how to create an effective three-minute pitch deck for various audiences (pitch competition, investor, partner, customer).
- Structure your pitch for different stakeholders and impactful delivery techniques.
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- Explore early funding opportunities and pathways.
- Understand healthcare-specific commercialization strategies.
- Build a go-to-market plan to gain traction.
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- Each participant will have the opportunity to apply all bootcamp concepts in their three-minute business pitch to the bootcamp cohort, Clinic mentors, and three or four judges.
- Students will receive feedback on their pitch, and an opportunity to win the prize pool.
BOOTCAMP FACILITATORS
Information Box Group
Hasam Madarati, PhD
Shaaf Farooq, MHI, PMP
TESTIMONIALS
Watch how the Health Innovation Bootcamp helped Deena Al-Sammak and Hasam Madarati, PhD, move their health innovations forward.
Winter 2025 Health Innovation Bootcamp
January 28 – March 11, 2025
Over six sessions, learn the foundations of health entrepreneurship to move your health innovation forward.
Bootcamp will held in-person at The Clinic at McMaster University and will also be running simultaneously, streaming at our satellite locations at The Clinic @ St. Joe’s (St. Joe’s Charlton Campus), and The Clinic @ HHS (David Braley Research Institute).