The Cleveland Clinic and Ohio State University agreed yesterday to join forces in fast-tracking the commercialization of health-care technology, signaling a desire to compete less and collaborate more.
Officials billed the partnership as Ohio’s largest medical-commercialization network. The two institutions are among the largest of the state’s centers of medical-related research and development based on National Institutes of Health funding.
“There really can be no more significant alliance than this teaming of our two institutions up and down I-71,” Christopher Coburn told a crowd at OSU’s Technology Commercialization office on N. High Street. Coburn is executive director of Cleveland Clinic Innovations, the health system’s corporate-venture branch.
