Unlocking innovation’s potential to improve health and healthcare.
Core Innovation is uniquely tailored to move health and healthcare innovations forward along the path from invention to adoption.
We meet you where you are at on your innovation journey and guide you towards success.
Our Purpose and Vision
At Core Innovation, we foster a collaborative and productive innovation ecosystem at the intersection of business, research and healthcare.
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Core Innovation Services
Canadian innovation in the health tech sector is accelerating, however, solutions are not being developed at the same rate. This is intensified by the large disconnect between clinicians, researchers and companies as each has their own field of expertise.
We help advance companies through the innovation pathway by bridging industries and ensure that valuable research transforms into tangible solutions for Canadian hospitals.
The Core Innovation team can support innovators and start-ups in the following ways:
Adoption and Scaling
The Adoption/Scaling stream works with sustainable companies that have products on the market and that have product development and commercialization goals for an innovative new health-tech product with pediatric, geriatric and/or long-term care applications.
Invention
The Invention stream supports clinical inventors and early-stage companies from the idea stage and challenge identification through to prototyping and beta testing. We help founders build a business case for their health care solution and identify clinical champions to transition the company to the next stage.
Commercialization
The Commercialization stream supports early-stage health-tech companies that have developed a working prototype or minimal viable product and are now looking to refine and validate this product within a pediatric and/or aging population, rehabilitation, complex continuing care or long-term care clinical setting.
Research
The Research chapter supports companies at any stage in the program to evaluate their technology in the healthcare setting, from product discovery to clinical trials. We will guide you through the research process, and support the collection of data from patients, clinicians, and other hospital stakeholders to drive evidence-based development of your technology.
Apply to see if your company, or product, qualifies for Core Innovation support and could benefit from any of the services offered. For more information, email [email protected].
Innovation in action: collaborations and projects
Core Innovation works with, and supports, innovators whose passion and focus is to support children and youth rehabilitation through the means of technological innovations. The program continues to bring on early-stage start ups and innovators in order to help translate new technologies into pediatric care solutions.
Learn about some of the collaborations and projects we have supported, or are currently, supporting.
The 8-80 Collaborative
The 8-80 Collaborative directly supports innovators and companies in developing and commercializing technologies that deliver health solutions for patients from youth to older adults. Supported by the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario), the 8-80 Collaborative is a partnership between the CHEO Research Institute and Bruyère. Together we support companies pursuing innovations aimed at those young and old, from eight seconds to more than 80 years.
Support Core Innovation
Do you or your organization possess specific equipment, skills or expertise that could be useful to health-tech innovators? Are you interested in supporting our program? Please fill out the Core Innovation resources form here.
Contact us
If you have an innovative idea or question about Core Innovation please contact us. We’re always looking to learn about and collaborate on new ideas to drive forward health care innovation.
Reach out to us at [email protected].
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