Office of Technology Commercialization

Technology Development Fund, Now Accepting Applications

The Technology Development Fund is an internal funding program at Nationwide Children's created to further develop inventions/intellectual propery in order to make them more attractive and less risky to petnial licensing and business partners.  The fund aims to help transform faculty and staff early stage inventions into commercialized inventions.
Learn more about the Technology Development Fund and download an application

Now Available :: The Revised Intellectual Property Disclosure Form

As part of our continuing efforts to improve our technology commercialization activities, we have updated our Intellectual Property Disclosure Form.

This updated form provides additional space for inventors to provide all the necessary information for their invention. It also asks additional questions that will allow the Office of Technology Commercialization to continue to diligently assess new intellectual property, determine its commercial potential, and create a strategy for commercializing that intellectual property.  This form should be used for disclosing new Intellectual Property to the Office of Technology Commercialization.

If you have any questions about the new form, please contact our office at the number below and we would be glad to answer them.


Technology Commercialization at Nationwide Children's
The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital is an innovative, emergent organization that encourages faculty to develop promising new technologies that could one day provide utility to the practice of pediatrics, or more broadly, to the general health care community.  The Office of Technology Commercialization at The Research Institute is responsible for the transfer of technology to external organizations.

Improving Patient Care through Technology
The Office of Technology Commercialization supports our organization's focus on clinical care, research and education by facilitating the transfer of new technologies to outside partners for the benefit of our community and the general public.  We work closely with our Patents and Copyrights Committee to protect and commercialize intellectual property for Nationwide Children's Hospital.

Read “Invention 101,” a story about invention and innovation at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

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