Innovation Centre
We provide comprehensive support to students, researchers, and innovators, helping them turn ideas into practical solutions.
At the RSU Innovation Centre, students, researchers, and innovators receive comprehensive support to transform their ideas into market-ready solutions. It serves as the home base for the RSU B-Space business incubator and the EIT Health RIS Hub in Latvia.
Innovation Centre in numbers*
1.6
million EUR in EU co-funding secured to support student-led innovation creation and development through 2029
2
new programmes launched in the business incubator to build entrepreneurship and innovation skills
15
leading companies hosted in RSU laboratories to strengthen science–industry collaboration
41
teams formed across healthcare hackathons including EIT Health i-Days, MedTech Sprint, and SportsHack 2025
254
sports programme students introduced to the fundamentals of entrepreneurship through the HIVE course
35
new industry partners committed to engage in innovation and entrepreneurship activities
9
prototypes developed by student and researcher teams
90
aspiring entrepreneurs enrolled in the B-Space pre-incubation programme
* Data for 2024
Riga Stradiņš University (RSU) is a place where knowledge turns into ideas, and ideas turn into real solutions with the potential to improve people’s quality of life and even save lives. Successful innovation is built not only on the initiative to create something new, but also on the ability to understand market demand, collaborate with industry, and develop solutions that meet the needs of the target audience and can be scaled. For this reason, the Innovation Centre promotes the development of innovation and entrepreneurship skills at all levels of the university, from students to researchers. Our goal is to create an environment where knowledge evolves into innovative and sustainable solutions that simultaneously advance public health and strengthen the international competitiveness of both RSU and Latvia.
Agnese Oļševska,
Acting Director, RSU Innovation Centre
The project RSU internal and RSU with LASE external consolidation No. 5.2.1.1.i.0/2/24/I/CFLA/055 is financed by the investment of the European Union Recovery and Resilience Facility and the state budget.
