The 53-year-old fitness enthusiast and his crew have an important
job: nurturing inventions that emerge from several thousand scientists
and doctors at the nation’s top heart hospital, and guiding them through
a years-long process to commercial viability, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Coburn, the son of a thoracic surgeon, grew up eating politics and policy. He cut his commercialization teeth at Battelle, building the research institute’s Cleveland-based commercialization unit to 60 people. He has been executive director of what then was known as CCF (Cleveland Clinic Foundation) Innovations since 2000.
Known simply as Cleveland Clinic Innovations (CCI), the group of more than 35 people recently started their second decade with a first-of-its-kind venture ranking, a brand-new incubator building and a growing portfolio of spin-out companies.
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