After the EIC Summit 2025 and EIC Partners Day, it is a good time to reflect on the past year of ecosystem partnership with the European Innovation Council (EIC) for internationalisation. Looking back to 2023, when EIC decided to expand their EIC service catalogue with a new section focusing on internationalisation, inXso had the pleasure of joining as one of the first and few to focus exclusively on the healthcare sector.

Dedicated Programmes for EIC Beneficiaries

Supporting EIC Awardees and Seal of Excellence holders in their internationalisation efforts has been just a tiny part of the ever-evolving collaboration with the EIC, as the programme presents an exceptional platform to exchange insights and expertise within the ecosystem with some of the best innovators in Europe.

The extent of on-demand services provided by the EIC ecosystem is illustrated by initiatives such as the Tech2Market Venture Building programme, which focuses on leveraging research results to build ventures from viable business ideas, and the EIC Access+ call, created exclusively to accelerate Deep-Tech Innovations.

Within such programmes, inXso is dedicated on supporting EIC pathfinder, EIC transition, EIC accelerator, and EIC Seal of Excellence holders in realising their innovation paths and developing their businesses to be market-access ready in the highly regulated healthcare sector.

EIC beneficiaries have developed their R&D roadmaps and successfully navigated regulatory challenges while building sustainable financial models, all by utilising our unique interdisciplinary and international expertise

Backing Visionary Entrepreneurs

Since inXso is providing specific niche support focusing on the on-demand needs of the EIC beneficiary, the support may include grassroots essentials such as compiling technical documentation, ensuring ISO 13485:2016 compliance, designing clinical trials according to ISO 14155:2020, creating risk management plans according to ISO 14971:2019, and IEC 62366 ensuring usability in the process, to name a few.

On a higher level, EIC beneficiaries have ensured their investor readiness by creating additional assets through inXso’s technical assessment, building sustainable financial models and fundraising strategies through inXso’s business development insights, and developing regulatory roadmaps with viable reimbursement models to access international markets leveraging inXso’s international regulatory expertise.

Learning from the Best

Since emerging medical technologies are the cornerstone of inXso’s activities in our continuous and ever-evolving cooperation with research teams, helping EIC beneficiaries is one of the areas where we feel most comfortable.

At the same time, it has been a great pleasure to see and get to know the cream of the crop of innovations supported by the EIC ecosystem and to learn from the latest research.

Given the nature of emerging medical technologies, it is not a straightforward process to establish regulatory routes as, in many cases, the current regulatory framework does not cover the innovation – yet, since regulatory compliance is reactive in nature and evolves according to the latest research seeking its way to market.

However, precisely because of these challenges, nothing is as rewarding as seeing cutting-edge research reach healthcare providers and patients.

About inXso

Born internationally, we help innovators open new lines of research and technology that are disrupting existing healthcare ecosystems.

inXso is an innovation agency specialising in breakthrough, disruptive, and emerging technologies for healthcare, covering deep tech and nanotechnology solutions for medical, biomedical, and health technology. Following our motto, “We bridge the gap between medical research, the development of medical innovation, and international commercialisation”, we provide expertise in co-innovation and development, international business development, and innovation procurement support.

inXso provides services in the healthcare sector with three focus areas:

• Co-innovation & development
• International business development
• Innovation procurement support

EIC Partner for Internationalisation

Get familiar with our support for internationalisation in the healthcare sector in the EIC Catalogue.

inXso is delighted to announce our joining of an official partnership organisation with SHIFT-HUB, a pan-European Smart Health Innovation Hub that fosters smart health technologies and is paving the way towards a future federated European Health Data Space.

Introducing SHIFT-HUB Ecosystem

SHIFT-HUB’s objective is to establish a pan-European Smart Health Innovation Hub that brings together a rich network of multidisciplinary stakeholders with the mission to facilitate the development, ensure the promotion, and foster the uptake of Smart Health technologies and services. By putting a strong community of emerging digital technologies providers, with the support of practitioners and the healthcare institutions they represent, at the service of patients and citizens, SHIFT-HUB aims to enable awareness raising, digital literacy enhancement, and behavioural changes. We aim to facilitate a paradigm shift from a reactive to a proactive and personalised healthcare system focused on maintaining good health instead of disease management.

To foster technology development and experimentation, SHIFT-HUB will design and implement a patient-centric and community-driven Data Hub pilot offering secure access to anonymised data for application development and paving the way towards the future federated European Health Data Space.SHIFT-HUB aims to act as a gateway facilitating access for practitioners, patients and citizens to European Smart Health technologies through its infrastructure and by leveraging the dense network of EU Digital Innovation Hubs that will be targeted as partners to foster an intersectoral cross-fertilisation. The SHIFT-HUB ecosystem will foster cultural exchange between stakeholders from various backgrounds, inducing a process of peer learning, skills enrichment and transfer of know-how globally enriching the community.

What to look forward to

inXso, an innovation agency specialising in breakthrough, disruptive, and emerging technologies for healthcare and an avid promoter and co-designer of personalised and precision medical technology implementing patient-centric methods, aligns perfectly with SHIFT-HUB objectives. Our role in this partnership is to bring our expertise and experience to the table, contributing to the paradigm shift from a reactive to a proactive and personalised healthcare system. We are excited about the potential of this partnership to establish a pan-European Smart Health Innovation Hub, bringing together a rich network of multidisciplinary stakeholders.

With a shared mission, inXso and SHIFT-HUB are committed to facilitating the development, ensuring the promotion, and fostering the uptake of Smart Health technologies. Our joint focus on emerging digital technologies and a proactive and personalised healthcare system inspires our upcoming collaboration offerings and international business development, which will foster the emergence and uptake of Smart Health products and services.

Through the partnership, both inXso and SHIFT-HUB are uniquely positioned to provide a comprehensive and in-depth insight into the international development of technology companies. Our combined expertise and resources will create an unparalleled platform for smart healthcare, offering a more comprehensive service and broad coverage across Europe. This will provide companies and start-ups with valuable opportunities to build their business and drive the smart healthcare sector forward.

About inXso

Born internationally, we help innovators open new lines of research and technology that are disrupting existing healthcare ecosystems.

inXso provides services in the healthcare sector with three focus areas:

• Co-innovation & development
• International business development
• Innovation procurement support

EIC Partner for Internationalisation

Get familiar with our support for internationalisation in the healthcare sector in the EIC Catalogue.