Cleveland Clinic Innovations transforms breakthrough healthcare technologies from our caregivers into patient impact through commercialization, licensing, startup creation and strategic industry partnerships.
Since 2000, we’ve delivered:
Every medical innovation starts with a problem facing patients, caregivers, or healthcare systems. Cleveland Clinic Innovations transforms insights into technologies that improve lives around the world. Our portfolio spans medical devices, diagnostics, therapeutics, digital health and AI-driven solutions. Across our Cleveland Clinic ecosystem, we are moving healthcare breakthroughs from discovery to patient care with our current pipeline of technologies featuring innovations at the cutting edge of endo-robotics, CAR T therapy, neurosurgery and more.
Cleveland Clinic Innovations helps companies and entrepreneurs identify, develop, and commercialize breakthrough healthcare technologies that improve patient outcomes and safety, expand access to care and reduce the cost of healthcare.
Working alongside world-renowned clinicians, researchers, philanthropists and industry leaders, we are transforming promising ideas into solutions that address the most pressing healthcare challenges. We bring innovations to market through:
Cleveland Clinic Innovations is more than a tech transfer office. We operate within Cleveland Clinic’s globally integrated health system, where industry partners, entrepreneurs and investors can work alongside clinicians and researchers to solve healthcare’s greatest unmet needs. Our work is rigorously evaluated and shaped by some of the most complex cases in medicine across the world.
From discovery to commercialization, innovations benefit from real-world clinical insight, scientific rigor, and access to diverse patient populations across our global ecosystem.
At Cleveland Clinic, discovery happens across specialties and across our global locations, including Ohio, Florida, Nevada, Toronto, London and Abu Dhabi. As one of the world’s leading research hospitals, our clinical expertise, robust research resources and diverse patient populations and data, accelerate innovations from bench to bedside, with real-world validation to accelerate solutions from concept to execution.
The best innovations begin at the frontline. Every day, physicians, nurses, scientists, engineers and caregivers across Cleveland Clinic identify opportunities to improve healthcare delivery. We help transform those insights into new technologies, companies, and solutions by connecting innovators with the expertise, resources, and strategic support needed to reach patients worldwide.
From idea to market, we help innovations navigate every stage of commercialization. Our multidisciplinary team brings expertise in product development, licensing, intellectual property, regulatory strategy and company formation. With tailored commercialization pathways, we’re reducing risk, accelerating development timelines and positioning innovations for long-term success, at scale.
For more than 100 years, Cleveland Clinic physicians and researchers have advanced medical discoveries that have improved patient care around the world. In 2000, Cleveland Clinic Innovations was formed as Cleveland Clinic’s commercialization arm. We connect discoveries that solve healthcare’s greatest unmet needs with business opportunities to bring them to market. For decades, innovations that started here have changed medicine:
Through our established culture of innovation and unmatched clinical talent, our impact touches patients, communities and caregivers. From innovative ways of visualizing patient anatomy during surgery, to advances in cell and gene therapy, we invite you to explore our stories.
Transforming an idea into a final product requires a team of experts. We blend talent, experience and the resources of one of the world’s leading healthcare organizations to achieve exceptional results for patients, inventors, investors and partners.
We assess, protect, build, test and commercialize the most promising ideas that will shape the future of healthcare. Explore our portfolio of inventions available for licensing.