Healthcare company-building profile
The Center for Innovation
Children's Hospital Colorado
Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Accelerator
- Program category
- Health system accelerator
- Organization
- Children's Hospital Colorado
- Organization type
- Hospital or health system
- Location
- Aurora, Colorado
- Company stage served
- Not publicly documented
- Cohort or participation model
- Not publicly documented
- Investment or funding offered
- Not publicly documented
- Published investment terms
- Not publicly documented
- Equity or fee model
- Not publicly documented
- Clinical or hospital connection
- Yes
- Application status
- Active
- Founded
- 2016
Public description
About the program
The Center for Innovation, established in 2016, is Children's Hospital Colorado's hub for education, incubation and acceleration of pediatric healthcare ideas from its faculty and staff. It supports development of new drugs, medical devices, diagnostics and digital health technologies, and gives internal innovators access to a network of entrepreneurs-in-residence, mentors and innovation managers drawn from serial entrepreneurs, technical experts and venture capitalists. Its stated goals include stimulating innovation, launching ventures, bringing outside technology into clinical care and attracting top faculty and students. Outside companies engage through a partner submission form and can collaborate in three defined ways: ideation expertise on clinical problems, testing and clinical validation using the hospital as a healthcare testbed, and clinical expertise on workflows. Faculty and staff submit ideas through a separate internal form, and the center takes meeting requests by email.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
- Category: Health system accelerator
Publicly documented people and network
Program leadership and alumni
- Notable alumni named in public materials
- Established in 2016 as the hospital's innovation hub; Operates a network of entrepreneurs-in-residence, mentors and innovation managers for internal innovators; Offers external partners ideation expertise, clinical validation using the hospital as a testbed, and clinical workflow expertise
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