Skip to content

Hospital Innovation Programs Directory

An independent editorial resource published by Lisa T. Miller

Menu

Health system intelligence profile

Office of Technology Commercialization and Innovation Center

Nationwide Children's Hospital

Editorially verified · Last reviewed August 30, 2026

Intelligence summary

Program at a Glance

Program mandate
Nationwide Children's Hospital publishes an Office of Technology Commercialization and an Innovation Center within its pediatric research environment. The official technology-commercialization page says the office offers technology-transfer expertise and facilitates partnerships between inventors and industry to bring discoveries to patients, clinicians, and scientists.
Organizational model
Academic · Children's
Location
Columbus, Ohio
Program types
Innovation centerTechnology transferEntrepreneurship
Commercialization pathways
LicenseStrategic partnership
Focus areas
PediatricClinicalMedical device
Named initiatives or assets
Office of Technology Commercialization · Innovation Center
Public scale or maturity signals

Established 2022

Official engagement route
Program website ↗Health system website ↗
Last reviewed
August 30, 2026

Mandate and remit

What This Program Does

Nationwide Children's Hospital publishes an Office of Technology Commercialization and an Innovation Center within its pediatric research environment. The official technology-commercialization page says the office offers technology-transfer expertise and facilitates partnerships between inventors and industry to bring discoveries to patients, clinicians, and scientists. The Innovation Center page describes a team of clinicians, researchers, and engineers advancing patient care through medical-device innovation, design, and commercialization. It states that the center was founded in 2022 to discover, develop, and deliver pediatric innovations, support commercialization of hospital-born inventions, and educate future innovators. The official team page identifies Neil Veloso as Vice President for Innovation and Technology Commercialization, overseeing both functions. This profile records those stated roles without inferring licensing results, company ownership, revenue, or commercial performance.

Areas of Focus

PediatricClinicalMedical device

Commercialization Pathways

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

LicenseStrategic partnership

Named Programs and Initiatives

  • Office of Technology Commercialization ↗

    Nationwide Children's office providing technology-transfer expertise and facilitating partnerships between inventors and industry.

  • Innovation Center ↗

    Team of clinicians, researchers, and engineers focused on pediatric medical-device innovation, design, commercialization, and innovator education.

Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property, and Licensing

  • Technology transfer and commercialization support

    The office guides inventors and industry partners through technology-transfer processes intended to move pediatric discoveries toward use.

Leadership and Structure

Organizational home: Office of Technology Commercialization and Innovation Center, Nationwide Children's Hospital

Contact the Program

Use the program's published contact route for partnership, licensing, innovation, or program inquiries.

Program email
Tech.Commercialization@NationwideChildrens.org
Program phone
(614) 355-2818
Official contact page
Open contact page ↗

Related Programs

Comparable records based on shared public taxonomy, location, or commercialization route.

Same state · Same program type · Same commercialization route

Toledo, Ohio

Bon Secours Mercy Health

Mercy Health Research and Innovation (Northern Region innovation team)

Bon Secours Mercy Health's Mercy Health innovation team in its Northern Region runs an entrepreneurship and idea-commercialization program built around a Director of Innovation, an Entrepreneur in Residence, a Business Advisor for underserved entrepreneurs and an Innovation Grant Manager.

EntrepreneurshipInnovation centerStrategic partnershipClinicalWorkforce

Nonprofit

Read the intelligence brief

Editorially verified · Reviewed August 30, 2026

Same state · Same program type · Same commercialization route

Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati Children's

Innovation Ventures

Cincinnati Children's Innovation Ventures is a named pediatric health-system program for translating research and ideas into products, services, and companies.

Innovation centerTechnology transferAcceleratorLicenseSpinoutPediatricClinicalTherapeutics

Academic · Children's

Read the intelligence brief

Editorially verified · Reviewed August 30, 2026

Same state · Same program type · Same commercialization route

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland Clinic Innovations

Cleveland Clinic Innovations is the health system's commercialization function for inventions that originate with Cleveland Clinic clinicians and researchers.

Innovation centerTechnology transferVenture fundLicenseSpinoutClinicalMedical deviceDigital

Academic · Nonprofit

Read the intelligence brief

Editorially verified · Reviewed August 30, 2026

Same state · Same program type · Same commercialization route

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland Clinic (Stanley Shalom Zielony Institute for Nursing Excellence)

Office of Nursing Research and Innovation

Cleveland Clinic's system-wide Office of Nursing Research and Innovation supports nurses who want to pursue research questions or develop innovative processes, systems and devices, on the premise that the most important ideas come from clinicians providing direct patient care.

Innovation centerNursing innovationTechnology transferLicenseClinicalMedical deviceWorkforce

Nonprofit

Read the intelligence brief

Editorially verified · Reviewed August 30, 2026

Same state · Same program type · Same commercialization route

Columbus, Ohio

OhioHealth

New Ventures and Business Incubation (NVBI)

OhioHealth New Ventures and Business Incubation is the system department responsible for identifying emerging health care opportunities, adopting outside innovations and backing new ventures.

Innovation centerVenture fundEntrepreneurshipInvestmentStrategic partnershipClinicalWorkforceOperational

Nonprofit

Read the intelligence brief

Reviewed August 30, 2026

Same state · Same program type · Same commercialization route

Cleveland, Ohio

The MetroHealth System

Population Health Innovation Institute

The Population Health Innovation Institute is MetroHealth's internal engine for designing, testing and scaling value-based care delivery models for a largely safety-net population.

Innovation centerStrategic partnershipClinicalOperational

Nonprofit

Read the intelligence brief

Reviewed August 30, 2026

Sources and Updates

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

  1. Office of Technology Commercialization – Guiding Ideas to Solutions ↗ — Nationwide Children's Hospital. Accessed August 30, 2026.
  2. Innovation Center ↗ — Nationwide Children's Hospital. Accessed August 30, 2026.
  3. Meet Our Team – Office of Technology Commercialization ↗ — Nationwide Children's Hospital. Accessed August 30, 2026.

Confidential comparison

How does your innovation program compare?

Request a confidential conversation about the commercial opportunities, market pathways, and capabilities within your hospital's innovation portfolio. The public directory does not score or rank programs.

Compare your programSubmit or update a program