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Here are some of the companies that have spearheaded through innovation to reach new growth streams with us.

Bridging Borders: A Collaborative Approach to Improving MS Care

A world-leading pharmaceutical company was facing a critical challenge: understanding the complex and varied patient journey of individuals with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) across different countries.

  • healthcare
  • patient journey
  • pharma company

Roche

Patient-centricity through ecosystem collaboration

The most complex challenges of humankind can no longer be tackled by any organisation alone. Roche understood that it isn’t enough to improve patient’s lives worldwide all by themselves. By teaming up with allies that share goals, much larger objectives can be accomplished at an even faster pace.

  • collaboration
  • ecosystems
  • healthcare

Lantmännen

Lantmännen Greenhouse – a Circular Future

“Lantmännen is an agricultural cooperative and Northern Europe’s leader in agriculture, machinery, bioenergy and food products. Lantmännen is owned by 18 000 farmers and with grain at the heart of our operations, we refine arable land resources to make farming thrive.”

  • business
  • ecosystems
  • innovation
  • mentoring

Healthcare industry

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  • future
  • healthcare
  • innovation

Healthcare industry

Preparing for the future of healthcare

Turn on the evening news on any given day and you’ll likely hear variations on the same theme: The healthcare system is under pressure to change: Modernize, digitalize, speed up, be more efficient. But where does all this change lead to and what does the future of the healthcare system look like? Vertical set out to answer these questions and more in the Future Trajectories of Healthcare study.

  • future
  • healthcare
  • innovation

Roche

Increasing access to healthcare for millions

Especially in Europe, it's easy to take healthcare for granted. But half the world lives without access to even the most basic forms of healthcare. Together with Roche, we're working to change that.

  • ecosystems
  • healthcare
  • innovation

Roche

Teaching a global corporation to build ecosystems

How working with ecosystems can help you innovate faster, change for the better, and help save the world.

  • collaboration
  • ecosystems
  • healthcare

Pfizer

Enabling innovative patient solutions

With the aim of promoting good health in every way, Pfizer works to help patients with life-long illnesses. Pfizer aims to create a rounded support system for chronic patients that will go beyond the pill and support a person 365 days a year.

  • collaboration
  • transaction

Varian

Finding solutions for radiation therapy

Varian experts have kicked-off partnership negotiations with 6 companies in AI/ML and innovation for cancer treatment. After a round of internal interest check Varian will reach out to some of these teams offering them to become a part of Varian Innovation Center.

  • Market intelligence
  • Scouting

A-lehdet

Rethinking business models

"The media industry has been struggling for years" sounds like a quote from ‘Captain Obvious’ — but while it may be common knowledge, potential solutions to the problem can be more obscure and unusual. That was definitely the case in the work that we conducted for one of Finland’s oldest publishing houses, A-lehdet.

  • transaction

Stora Enso

Enabling agile transformation

Stora Enso, a global renewable materials company, internally recruited 18 employees to work for 3 months with 6 startup companies. Their aim was to explore and work towards opportunities in the Circular Economy.

Business Tampere

Creating a collaborative ecosystem

In 2019, Vertical created Rapid Tampere – a platform enabling collaboration between startups and industrial enterprises. In its first year, we recruited and prepared four industrial enterprises for collaborative innovation.

  • collaboration
  • transaction