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Children's National Innovation Ventures

Children's National Hospital

Editorially verified · Last reviewed August 30, 2026

Intelligence summary

Program at a Glance

Program mandate: Innovation Ventures is the innovation and technology transfer office of Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC, operating within the hospital's Research and Innovation Campus. It manages all aspects of intellectual property development arising from the pediatric hospital's clinicians and researchers, including patents, copyrights, research tools, software and know-how.
Organizational model: Children's · Nonprofit
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Program types: Technology transfer Innovation center Entrepreneurship
Commercialization pathways: License Strategic partnership
Focus areas: ClinicalMedical devicePediatricDigitalWorkforce
Public scale or maturity signals: Documented successes: Signed a collaboration agreement with Swiss medical technology company Compremium AG in 2025 to advance pediatric medical technologies; commercialization pipeline includes pediatric surgical robotics and 3D imaging advances; operates from the Children's National Research and Innovation Campus
Official engagement route: Program website ↗Health system website ↗
Last reviewed: August 30, 2026

Mandate and remit

What This Program Does

Innovation Ventures is the innovation and technology transfer office of Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC, operating within the hospital's Research and Innovation Campus. It manages all aspects of intellectual property development arising from the pediatric hospital's clinicians and researchers, including patents, copyrights, research tools, software and know-how. The office markets, licenses and commercializes those assets and builds strategic business partnerships with industry. It also supports startup formation around pediatric device and digital health inventions and negotiates collaboration agreements with medical technology companies. It is a commercialization and partnering organization rather than an external venture fund.

Areas of Focus

ClinicalMedical devicePediatricDigitalWorkforce

Commercialization Pathways

These routes appear in the program's sourced public record.

License Strategic partnership

Publicly Reported Outcomes

Documented successes
Signed a collaboration agreement with Swiss medical technology company Compremium AG in 2025 to advance pediatric medical technologies; commercialization pipeline includes pediatric surgical robotics and 3D imaging advances; operates from the Children's National Research and Innovation Campus

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Official contact page: Open contact page ↗

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Sources and Updates

Reviewed August 30, 2026. External source links open in a new tab.

Children's National Innovation Ventures official source ↗ — research.childrensnational.org. Accessed August 30, 2026.
Children's National Innovation Ventures source 2 ↗ — childrensnational.org. Accessed August 30, 2026.

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