What Is Wake Forest Innovations?
Simplifying Collaboration with Industry
About Wake Forest Innovations
What does that mean for you? We partner with you, the faculty and staff of Wake Forest Baptist, to develop your ideas for medical technologies into market-changing innovations by guiding you along the path to innovation: ideation, evaluation, protection, development and licensing.
Wake Forest Innovations also expedites industry access to your specialized preclinical and clinical research capabilities.
How does that help you? We help you find the right industry connections that will lead to new studies by marketing your expertise to industry. We also manage the paperwork and processes through our Alliance Management team, so you can focus on the science.
We also have dedicated staff in Operations and Marketing and Communications who provide support for our customized services.
Learn more about these avenues to industry partnerships.
Why You Should Work with Wake Forest Innovations
A New Era of Working with Industry
As companies seek new collaborations to support their R&D needs in preclinical and clinical research and to fill their product pipelines with licensed technologies, academic researchers are learning how those partnerships can be beneficial to their work as well:
- Researchers and industry partners can leverage each other’s unique technologies, capabilities, resources and strengths
- Collaborators can share expertise, knowledge, risk and reward at all stages
- Partnerships can accelerate the translation of research discoveries toward finding treatments and products that benefit society
- Research projects focus on the real-world applications of the work, in addition to answering scientific queries
- Interactions foster greater trust and communication, which encourages more efficient and successful collaborations
To foster partnerships that advance medical technologies and research, Wake Forest Innovations has a team with research and industry experience to support you in both developing novel technologies or creating industry research partnerships.