The White Rose University Consortium, together with the University of Bradford, has been awarded £4.7M to establish this partnership to provide a framework to dramatically accelerate innovation in technologies, methodologies and practices within the medical and healthcare sector. The project unifies commercialisation processes that currently operate in three separate ?silos? (clinical, industrial and academic) into a coherent supply chain to improve innovation throughout the Health Service. It has been funded initially for 30 months by the Higher Education Innovation Fund.

The White Rose Health Innovation Partnership includes partners on both sides of the Atlantic: The University of Bradford; Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; the NHS Regional Innovation Centre for Yorkshire and Humber, Medipex Ltd.; the UK's national Health Technologies Knowledge Transfer Network; professional association Medilink (Yorkshire & the Humber) Ltd.; five of the UK regional development agency Yorkshire Forward's Centres of Industrial Collaboration: (BITECIC Ltd., Particles CIC, Wireless CIC, The Institute of Pharmaceutical Innovation and Polymers CIC); the New Jersey Biotechnology & Life Sciences Coalition; New Jersey Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey; the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey; and the International Accelerated Radical Innovation Institute. It has attracted the strong support several global healthcare companies including Smith & Nephew, Johnson & Johnson and B Braun.