Calum Davidson

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Calum Davidson

• Head of Knowledge Economy Highlands and Islands
  Enterprise

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The Enterprise Networks

• Scottish Enterprise
• Economic Development Agency for the South and
  East of Scotland
• Highlands and Islands Enterprise
• Economic and Social Development Agency for the
  North and West of Scotland
• Scottish Development International
• International Trade and Inward Investment

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Role of the Enterprise Networks

• Overall Strategies A Smart Successful Scotland,
  and A Smart Successful Highlands and Islands
• Priorities
• Growing Business
• Global Connections
• Skills and Learning
• Strengthening Communities

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HIE SE focus in Telehealth

• Priorities in-
• Knowledge transfer
• Project development
• Business Growth
• Research and development
• Innovation infrastructure
• Broadband connectivity

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Some examples
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RD Market Intelligence

• ITI Techmedia
• April 06 - Market Intelligence Report on Remote
  Health, which explores the technologies that
  enable delivery of treatment and monitoring of
  medical conditions by medical professionals at a
  different location from the patient.
• August 06 Remote Health Opportunities White
  Paper, which describes the future market
  opportunities, challenges, key drivers and the
  potential functional needs of the Remote Health
  sector.

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Business Growth

• The SMARTSCOTLAND, SPUR and SPUR PLUS R D
  programmes are all grant schemes that are
  targeted at promoting innovation.
• Two further Scottish Executive initiatives, SCORE
  and SEEKIT, are specifically aimed at encouraging
  greater co-operation between SMEs and the Science
  Base.
• SE and HIE also invest in Technologically
  innovative business growth projects

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Innovation Infrastructure

• Inverness Centre for Health Science
• Education, research and incubation space,
  Multi-tenant and multi-use - healthcare
  education, training, research and business
  development
• Phase I
• University of Stirling Undergraduate Nurse
  Education, Post Graduate Education and CPD at
  various levels
• NHS Education for (NES) education, training and
  CPD across all medical and health professions
• UHI School of Health Science NHS Highland
  Common services
• Phase II
• NHS Highland Clinical Skills Centre, NES
  Access Dental, Dental Institute
• University of Aberdeen/Centre for Rural Health
  Offices and Labs
• Lifescan Scotland Limited Offices and Labs,
  Blue Skies Research HIE Network - Business
  Incubators

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Research Activities

• Distance Lab a new Research Lab set up and
  owned by HIE, affiliated to UHI
• Investigating how technology can overcome
  distance and enhance human connectedness
• Remote architecture
• Remote relationships
• Remote storytelling
• Remote health
• A distributed research centre with nodes around
  the Highlands and Islands

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Knowledge Transfer

• HIE and MIT Knowledge Transfer projects
• Empathy recognition algorithms
• Match agent to caller through emotions
• Robotic companions for remote health monitoring
  and management
• Field trials planned for 2007, looking at respite
  care, children and the elderly
• Remote monitoring and sensor technologies
• UHI Facility of Health

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