innovation sandbox
The Innovation Sandbox is our flagship program. It provides access to our network of health technology experts to help you develop products faster, scale up your business, and better understand your user’s needs. At the core of this program are our project cost sharing opportunities and our consulting services.
Project Management and Cost Sharing
Are you a BC based digital health technology company? If so you may qualify for cost sharing to help your funding go further. By partnering with Digital Health Circle for your project we can apply our funding to help reduce your project costs. Here is how it works:
We support projects between $25,000 and $500,000
Digital Health Circle is the project manager, meaning that all costs are paid by us
Digital Health Circle invoices you for 70% of the total project costs, we cover the remaining 30%
Decision making, intellectual property and all results of the project belong to you
Funding can only be applied to contractors working on a research and development project for your company
Option #1 - Bring your own project
If you already have a project in mind, have lined up contractors to do the work, and are ready to begin work in the next month - this is the option for you. These projects are very fast to approve, typically only requiring 2-3 weeks from application to project start.
Option #2 - Supported development
If you aren’t quite sure where to start and are looking for some support in developing a project, we are here to help. This process can take some time and typically requires 6-8 weeks from the first discussion to project start.
Consulting Services
We offer consulting services that draw on co-creation between users, researchers, and industry to help you build products that will have a positive impact. Below are the core services we can offer.
User Engagement
Ideal for companies looking to benefit from user feedback on their new or existing product. We can help determine needs, design testing protocols, recruit participants, collect data, and extract key insights to guide product development.
Data Insights
Data-driven insights are a key strategy for measuring user engagement and understanding what users enjoy most when interacting with a product. We provide access to our data science and machine learning experts who can apply state-of-the-art methods in machine learning and artificial intelligence to analyze large data sets.
Market Research
Our network of experts can help obtain insights about the market you are currently operating in or inform about a new market. We can help develop plans to better position your products in those markets and increase your sales.