The Ecosystem: Romania's support for health start-ups is succeeding.

 The Ecosystem: Romania's support for health start-ups is succeeding.

Romania seeks to create a more robust ecosystem for start-ups in the healthcare industry with targeted support programmes and a new accelerator.

Making use of the assistance provided by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and the wealth of IT expertise in the nation, Romania is making a concerted effort to create an ecosystem for health start-ups. Additionally, there are indications of success for the nation's start-ups within the EIT Health community.

According to a benchmarking study released in April that included all of the Widening nations, Romanian participants in EIT Health programmes are performing better than average in terms of external grants received, value, and the percentage of start-ups that enter the market. They fall short when measured against peers in terms of the sums raised from outside sources.

Romania also emerged out as the nation with the most survey participants, which, according to the report, suggests a certain level of success in