Publications

Highlights:

• This study investigates the innovation strategy and growth patterns of start-ups that introduce new products, services or integrated solutions to meet social needs, whose main purpose is to improve health conditions and the well-being of people with advanced technologies and dedicated services.
• A multiple case study research is conducted by selecting four start-ups incubated in UPTEC, the science and technology park of the University of Porto in Portugal.
• Findings show that healthcare start-ups follow either “qualitative” (in terms of employees and mix of competences) or “quantitative” (in terms of financial resources, i.e. funds and revenues) growth patterns, and accordingly ways of leveraging the interconnections of the innovation ecosystem they belong to.

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Cite this article:

Pessot, E., Natale, V., Casprini, E. (2023). Start-Up Innovation and Growth in Health-Related Industries. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Boucher, X., Ortiz, A. (eds) Collaborative Networks in Digitalization and Society 5.0. PRO-VE 2023. IFIP Advances in  Information and Communication Technology, vol 688. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42622-3_38

Preprint version available: Start-up innovation and growth in health-related industries (zenodo.org)