THE HEALTH CAPTAINS INSTITUTE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIVISION

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Business Development Division

THE HEALTH CAPTAINS INSTITUTE

Accelerating the Lifecare Economy through Strategic Health Innovation

As the world transitions from fragmented, reactive “sickcare” systems toward integrated, value-driven Lifecare ecosystems, the demand for translational business development in health has never been more urgent—or more complex. The Business Development Division of THE HEALTH CAPTAINS INSTITUTE serves as a catalyst and integrator for this transformation, aligning science, policy, capital, and entrepreneurship within sustainable, regional and global health economies.

This Division plays a vital role in shaping the Lifecare Economy by enabling health-related innovation to scale—across disciplines, across regions, and across sectors.

Mission & Focus

The Business Development Division exists to:

  • Transform knowledge and research into scalable solutions

  • Facilitate public-private partnerships and translational platforms

  • Support the creation of sustainable health innovation ecosystems

  • Enable cross-border demonstrator models within One Health Regions and Islands

  • Ensure value-based, science-led solutions reach the people and systems who need them

It operates under the conviction that health is not only a right—but also a competitive economic asset, and that innovation must be both socially responsible and economically viable.

Strategic Functions

The Business Development Division focuses on four integrated functions:

1. Translational Enablement

  • Converts research, clinical innovation, and policy blueprints into operational business models.

  • Bridges the “valley of death” between scientific discovery and real-world application.

  • Fosters collaboration among academia, health systems, startups, and capital providers.

2. Innovation Ecosystem Development

  • Designs and supports One Health Demonstrator Regions and Islands.

  • Builds platforms to foster long-term health investment and circular economic growth.

  • Aligns regional business development strategies with Lifecare and Healthy Longevity goals.

3. Investment Readiness & Partnership Design

  • Supports startups and academic spin-offs in developing scalable go-to-market strategies.

  • Facilitates investor networks focused on sustainable medicine, longevity biotech, and digital health.

  • Helps foundations and institutions de-risk impact investments with system-level support.

4. Stakeholder Integration & Co-Creation

  • Aligns cross-sector stakeholders around shared value outcomes.

  • Builds collaborative business development initiatives with hospital systems, insurers, tech partners, and governments.

  • Designs participatory business roadmaps through THE HEALTH CAPTAINS CLUB’s peer-to-peer platform.

Impact by Stakeholder Group

University & Academic Medical Centers

  • Facilitates commercialization of biomedical and health system innovations.

  • Builds translational partnerships with industry, policy actors, and venture funds.

  • Positions academic medicine as an economic and innovation anchor for One Health Regions.

Health Foundations

  • Structures outcome-based investment strategies in line with mission-driven health goals.

  • Enables foundations to incubate and scale innovations with measurable health and equity impact.

  • Builds bridges between philanthropic capital and commercial scalability.

Startups & Scaleups

  • Provides structured access to academic, clinical, and policy partners.

  • Prepares ventures for regulatory pathways, clinical validation, and value-based scaling.

  • Connects emerging companies with investors and buyers aligned with Lifecare principles.

Health Institutions & Systems

  • Supports the development of new care models and delivery platforms grounded in sustainability and value.

  • Co-creates innovation pathways within large public and private health systems.

  • Offers insight into reimbursement models, contracting, and telemedicine integration.

Health Initiatives & Conference Ecosystems

  • Integrates innovation into leading health conferences and summits.

  • Transforms events into sustainable business development forums and platforms.

  • Facilitates matchmaking between science, policy, entrepreneurship, and capital.

Global Positioning and One Health Regional Models

In partnership with the other divisions of THE HEALTH CAPTAINS INSTITUTE, the Business Development Division plays a leading role in shaping:

  • One Health Regional Hubs – where sustainable medicine, digital infrastructure, and health innovation clusters converge.

  • Island Innovation Models – leveraging telemedicine, value-based care, and healthspan expansion to serve remote and underserved populations.

  • Lifecare Demonstrators – showcasing best practices in translational implementation, public-private co-creation, and precision prevention.

These models serve as scalable blueprints for global replication—anchored in European leadership, but globally connected through policy, capital, and knowledge platforms.

Powered by THE HEALTH CAPTAINS CLUB

The Business Development Division draws critical support from THE HEALTH CAPTAINS CLUB, the Institute’s cross-disciplinary membership platform. The Club acts as a living network of leaders and innovators, enabling:

  • C-suite networking and peer exchange

  • Strategic matchmaking between ideas and capital

  • Roundtable dialogues to frame business development priorities

  • Lifelong mentoring and knowledge-sharing among founders, funders, and system leaders

With its ecosystem of ambassadors, faculty members, and advisory board participants, the Club creates a high-trust environment where business development becomes leadership development—anchored in ethics, science, and societal benefit.

Conclusion: Building the Lifecare Economy

The Business Development Division of THE HEALTH CAPTAINS INSTITUTE is not a conventional economic office—it is a systems accelerator, helping to bridge gaps between innovation and implementation, vision and scale, leadership and community.

By supporting universities, hospitals, foundations, startups, investors, and policy actors, the Division lays the economic foundation for the next generation of health systems—ones that are sustainable, data-driven, regionally empowered, and human-centered.

This is where sickcare ends—and Lifecare begins.

“WE DON’T KNOW WHAT WE DON’T KNOW”

EXPLORING THE UNEXPLORED

LEADERSHIP FOR EXPLORING SUSTAINABLE HEALTH

“360º NEXT GENERATION SUSTAINABLE VALUE-BASED LIFECARE POWERED BY NEW INNOVATIONS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND THE SUPER-CONVERGENCE IN MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES NAVIGATING US TOGETHER TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE HEALTH INDUSTRY”

WELCOME ABOARD

“ What drives me is a kind of motto in life. You have to try to think the unthinkable. If we don’t ask questions, we don’t get answers. I think it is important to carefully analyze dogmas that exist in different areas of life. Even in the scientific field, it is not always credible what these dogmas convey to us – however, they occasionally erect intellectual fences that we must try to tear down.”

PROFESSOR HARALD ZUR HAUSEN

President Emeritus German Cancer Research Center DKFZ

Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine

“Traditionally the cooperation in the healthcare industry is not a well established matter. Currently, there is also the fact that the cooperation between the analogue and digital health worlds must first be developed. Places of exchange are very welcome. Congratulations for your work and good luck in the future!”

PROFESSOR HEINZ LOHMANN

President GESUNDHEITSWIRTSCHAFTSKONGRESS

At the latest in the face of the global corona pandemic, we have to completely restructure medicine, health sciences, health industry and the health systems worldwide towards sustainability.

DR. HENRI MICHAEL
VON BLANQUET

President of THE HEALTH CAPTAINS CLUB

Your are welcome aboard as a member and your Leadership, your Passion and your Expertise as Health Captain is critical to make it happen together.

LEADERSHIP FOR EXPLORING SUSTAINABLE HEALTH. NAVIGATING TOWARDS ONE HEALTH TOGETHER.

THE HEALTH CAPTAINS CLUB LEADERSHIP

Medical Board (15)   Advisory Board (15)   Board of Experts (50)

Board of Ambassadors (150)   Board of Young Leaders & Talents (150) Faculty Members of THE HEALTH CAPTAINS COLLEGE (50) Faculty Members of THE HEALTH CAPTAINS INSTITUTE (50)