CIMTI
An instrument at the service of the catalan health and social system
We work to make the high-impact health and social innovations available for citizens.
We identify the most relevant challenges of the health and social sistem, in coordination with the implicated Departments of the Generalitat. We select the best proposals to solve these challenges.
We accompany the selected projects both in the maturation phase and in the implementation stage following an own methodology which has been adapted from the CIMIT’s methodology.
We contribute to the maturation of projects by facilitating work meetings with our network of experts, from both the CIMTI community and the CIMIT of Boston. We give support in the areas of business, market, public procurement of innovation, regulatory, clinical, technology, investment and communication.
And we do not stop here. We are the only instrument that accompanies projects in their implementation both in Catalonia and internationally. We work with the Health Department and AQuAS to implement the mature projects that solve system challenges through public procurement of innovation. We facilitate the meetings, contacts and means to make it possible.
Our story
CIMTI was created in 2016 as an initiative with the aim to improve, at national level, the conversion ratio of scientific research on innovation. Thus, CIMTI is singled out as a project that seeks to ensure that research excellence is reflected in innovation excellence. CIMTI reinforces innovation structures, processes and policies based on promoting disruptive and incremental initiatives, with high health and social impact.
From 2016 to 2024, the promoting entity was the Leitat Foundation. From 2025 onwards, the promoting entity is the Fundació Joan Costa Roma of the Consorci Sanitari de Terrassa, with the support of the Department of Health of the Government of Catalonia, the Catalan Agency for Health Quality and Assessment (AQuAS, as per the acronym in Catalan), and a strategic alliance with CIMIT in Boston.
Our objectives
To improve the quality of life of citizensand Catalonia’s positioning in terms of innovation in the European context.
To generate impact by promoting the implementation of initiatives that generate a high health and social impact internationally. These initiatives must value the scientific production developed within the framework of the health and social research system.
To concentrate experience in the field of medical-technological devices and instruments, both in research and in the field of knowledge transfer and innovation.
To bring knowledge together through a network, the CIMIT community, that facilitates the contact of the agents involved: researchers from hospitals of SISCAT system, CERCA research centres, entrepreneurs and public and private sector entities that give more value to each function and stage of the process.
To deploy strategies to attract public and private investment, facilitate the internationalization and maximize the social impact of our innovations.
Visualization and transparency of the added value generated speaking of health, economics and social.
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