Healthy Ideas, Healthy Returns

Connect with the Human Health community of knowledge institutes, spin-off initiatives, investors and industry partners.

Healthy Ideas Healthy Returns (HIHR) offers valuable networking opportunities, allowing spin-offs to build up contacts for investments in follow-up programs, as well as a good feedback to sharpen their propositions.

Their practitioner driven network that brings together around hundred investors, spin-offs and TTO-professionals within the Benelux is gathering momentum and is increasingly recognized as a valuable player in early stage healthcare ventures. 

With the help of many experts, they offer projects and start ups in the Human Health in broadest sense, from Biotech Therapeutics and Diagnostics to Medtech and digital Health an opportunity to test their ideas, strategy and investment proposition and receive tailormade feedback from investors and industry partners.

Click here for a summary of 2024 and our resolutions for 2025.

Call for nominations HIHR-16 now open!

HIHR warmly invites Start ups in the Human Health, seeking seed investment to nominate their project for a start up pitch at our live event in Antwerp, on May 7, 2025.

If you’d like to talk once freely and openly about your ideas with investors or KTO experts, then sign up for a constructive, intimate Quickfire session.

They offer again one HIHR alumni project who has reached a new milestone, the floor to share their experiences and present their proposition once more.

More than 230 academic spin off projects participated in HIHR

Ever since 2016 we have helped more than 230 projects with strategic advice, presentation skills and network introductions.

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Click here for a summary of 2024 and our resolutions for 2025.

Mark these dates in 2025!

HIHR-16 Spring
Submission deadline pitch nominations & Quickfire sessions: Thursday March 27
online Quickfire sessions (9am, 12pm & 5pm): 21 - 25 april
Live Pitch session: Antwerp, May 7 

Source: HIHR