These profiles are based in North Carolina according to official program or system locations. A health system may also operate facilities in other states. Inclusion is not an endorsement.
Charlotte, North Carolina
Advocate Health Innovation (Innovative Collaborations and Technology Transfer Office)
Advocate Health's enterprise innovation function is led by a Chief Innovation and Commercialization Officer and combines an external-partnership front door with an internal commercialization office.
Nonprofit
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Charlotte, North Carolina
Advocate Health Technology Transfer Office
The Advocate Health Technology Transfer Office converts research and novel concepts generated inside the system into practical products.
Nonprofit
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Charlotte, North Carolina
The Pearl
The Pearl is Advocate Health and Atrium Health's innovation district in Charlotte's historic Brooklyn neighborhood, launched June 2, 2025 in partnership with Wexford Science & Technology and Ventas.
Nonprofit
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Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Center for Healthcare Innovation (CHI)
The Center for Healthcare Innovation is the implementation-focused innovation engine inside Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, built around the premise that it takes an average of 17 years to move medical discoveries into mainstream care and that the gap can be narrowed.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Durham, North Carolina
Duke's Office for Translation & Commercialization (OTC)
Duke's Office for Translation & Commercialization is the university-wide unit that identifies inventions from Duke faculty, graduate students and staff, protects them, and moves them to market through licensing to existing companies or the formation of new ventures.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Durham, North Carolina
Duke Institute for Health Innovation (DIHI)
The Duke Institute for Health Innovation (DIHI) is Duke Health's central innovation engine, created to catalyze transformative innovations in health and healthcare and to cultivate a community of innovation and entrepreneurship across Duke University and the health enterprise.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Durham, North Carolina
Health Innovation Lab (HILab) and Office of the Chief Nurse Innovation Officer
The Health Innovation Lab is a 20,000-plus-square-foot facility at the Duke University School of Nursing, adjacent to Duke University Hospital, that advances nurse-led models of care and translates clinical ideas into practice.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Novant Health Enterprises
Novant Health Enterprises is an independent business division launched by Novant Health in March 2022 to incubate, acquire and commercialize healthcare businesses rather than to make passive minority investments.
Nonprofit
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Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Novant Health Institute of Innovation & Artificial Intelligence
Novant Health opened its Institute of Innovation & Artificial Intelligence in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on June 5, 2019 to apply AI to personalized patient care across prediction, prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
Nonprofit
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina
UNC Health Ventures
UNC Health Ventures is the corporate investment fund for UNC Health.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Innovate Carolina
Innovate Carolina is the university-wide innovation and entrepreneurship initiative at UNC-Chapel Hill, operating out of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Wake Forest Innovations
Wake Forest Innovations manages intellectual property for Wake Forest University School of Medicine, the Wake Forest health system and Advocate Health, and its stated mission is to turn research into products.
Academic · Nonprofit
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