HHS is working to attract entrepreneurial talent to create a culture that supports risk-taking and accelerates innovation.
HHSentrepreneurs is based on the HHS Innovation Fellows Program launched in 2012. HHSentrepreneurs builds on lessons learned during the pilot HHS Innovation Fellows Program, and will:
- Identify HHS staff who are working on some of the Department’s toughest challenges and
- Match these talented individuals with External Entrepreneurs for a period of 6-12 months.
HHSentrepreneurs provides a novel framework to attract outside talent in areas including open innovation, agile development, and lean methodologies to accelerate innovation within HHS. Startup organizations have demonstrated that rapid iteration between various versions or features of a product can yield successful results, and HHS would like to promote these methods internally to address high-priority projects.