Nordic Health Summit


Japan is a top-three healthcare market in the world and home to many top phama companies that with appetite for Nordic innovation. Nordic Health Summit offers great opportunities for Swedish startups and scaleups to explore collaboration opportunities with leading Japanese companies in the sector

What 
  • Japan is an extremely large market – with 125 million people, it is the 3rd largest healthcare market in the world 
  • Projected CAGR of 4% between 2018 and 2024.
  • Japan is home to many top healthcare companies including Takeda, Astellas and Eisai just to mention a few
  • As Japan’s start up is limit Japanese companies increasingly rely on overseas startups to boost innovation
  • Examples of the strong track record of Japanese investment in Nordic life science:
  • Eisai’s investment in Sweden’s Bioarctic lead to world’s first fully FDA approved fully approved Alzheimer’s drug in 2023
  • Fujifilm USD 1.6 billion investment to expand advanced manufacturing in Denmark.
  • Japan has a comprehensive universal healthcare system
  • Patients are free to choose their healthcare provider
  • Medical expenditures have increased over 30% since 2000 and now constitute 11% of GDP

How 

Matchmaking at with leading Japanese life science companies and investors at Nordic Health Summit Japan

Nordic Health Summit Japan is a partnering and investor conference that connects Nordic healthcare innovations and Japanese investors and industry. We invite innovative Nordic health tech and Life Science to meet with Japanese stakeholders including pharmaceutical companies, investors and medical device companies eager to connect with the Nordics.

Why should I join?

- To gain insights about the Nordic healthcare business innovation and the Japanese healthcare market

- To access to unique high-level network of Nordic startups and Japanese industrial and financial life science investors in search of investment and collaboration partners

- For matchmaking opportunities between Nordic startups and Japanese industrial and financial life science investors

- For networking opportunities with Nordic startups and Japanese industrial and financial life science investors

Call to action 

We are planning for Nordic Health Summit Japan in Q2 2025.

Please reach out to magnus.blondell@business-sweden.se if you are interested in learning more about this year’s program and how you could take part!

Please also have a look at https://nordichealthsummit.org/ where you can read about the most recent edition off Nordic Health Summit Japan which took place in April 2024