Nationwide Children's Innovation Hub
From Ideas to Impact
Nationwide Children's Innovation Hub
At Nationwide Children’s, innovation starts with a question, a challenge or an idea and grows through collaboration, creativity and expertise.
The Nationwide Children’s Innovation Hub serves our faculty inventors and external partners of entrepreneurs, investors and executives with its expertise in invention development, technology transfer and facilitating partnerships to bring discoveries to patients and society. Our resourceful team guides inventors and partners through complex processes with creative solutions.
By partnering innovative technology with translational infrastructure and industry expertise, the Innovation Hub helps advance discoveries that benefit patient care, our community and the general public.
Our Mission
The Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital is dedicated to enhancing the health of children by engaging in high-quality, cutting-edge research according to the highest scientific and ethical standards.
Advancing Innovation Together
Innovation takes many forms. It can begin with a researcher’s discovery, a clinician’s unmet need, an engineer’s concept or a partner’s opportunity to solve a challenge in pediatric healthcare. The Nationwide Children’s Innovation Hub connects the people, expertise and resources needed to move those ideas toward real-world impact.
About Nationwide Children's Innovation Hub
The Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) and the Innovation Center bring different expertise to the innovation journey and work together to help promising ideas move forward.
The Innovation Center focuses on the front end of innovation: understanding unmet needs, developing ideas, designing solutions and testing concepts in the clinical environment.
The Office of Technology Commercialization helps move innovations toward broader use: evaluating opportunities, protecting intellectual property, developing commercialization strategies and connecting technologies with industry and entrepreneurial partners.
Together, these teams create a connected pathway for innovation at Nationwide Children’s — from identifying an opportunity to developing a solution and helping it reach the children who need it.
Connect With the Innovation Hub
Whether you have an idea, a technology, a clinical challenge or an opportunity to collaborate, the Nationwide Children’s Innovation Hub can help you find the right place to start.
Have an idea, unmet need, challenge or opportunity you'd like to explore?
Connect with the Innovation Center to refine concepts, identify collaborators, evaluate potential solutions and advance early-stage innovation. Contact the Innovation Center
Have a research discovery, invention, software, device, method or other potentially novel innovation?
Connect with OTC to discuss an Invention Disclosure Form (IDF), intellectual property and licensing considerations and commercialization opportunities. Connect with the Office of Technology Commercialization
The OTC also helps shepherd unfunded agreements between researchers and external parties. Connect with the Office of Technology Commercialization Agreements Team at OTCAgreements@nationwidechildrens.org.
Office of Technology Commercialization
The Office of Technology Commercialization helps translate discoveries and inventions from Nationwide Children’s into opportunities that can benefit patients, clinicians and communities around the world.
By securing patents, providing gap funding to de-risk early-stage technologies and partnering with external companies to license and commercialize innovations, we help transform scientific discoveries into real-world healthcare solutions.
The Innovation Center
The Innovation Center brings together clinicians, researchers and engineers to identify unmet needs, develop solutions and advance pediatric medical device innovation.
Through needs assessments, design, prototyping, testing, education and commercialization support, the team helps turn challenges in patient care into opportunities for innovation.
Explore Innovation at Nationwide Children’s
Discover the people, technologies, programs and partnerships helping transform pediatric healthcare.
Innovation Programs
Learn about programs that help clinicians, researchers and emerging innovators develop their ideas.
Innovation Stories
See how ideas and discoveries are moving from concept to real-world impact.
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