We Commercialise

Delivering real value from innovation

Commercialisation is the process of introducing a new product or idea to market, making it available for purchase and achieving its intended benefit. There are many ways to get your innovation to market including direct sell, licence and spin-out.

InnoScot Health has a proud 20-year history which has resulted in the successful commercialisation of medical devices, products and technologies; formation of seven spin-outs; negotiation of more than 25 UK and international commercial licence deals; and protection of over 250 NHS inventions.

Our products and services are used in Scotland, UK and around the world; and we support healthcare innovators through this process.

Who we are

Our role

Commercialisation is our end goal and a crucial step, generating revenue not only for you, the innovator, but also the employing health board. This helps NHS Scotland to reinvest in further innovation while realising improvements in patient care.

Multiple factors influence the correct approach including market readiness, availability of potential industry partners and funding. InnoScot Health works with academia, industry, and government to provide that crucial advice, and then with licence partners and NHS spin-outs during the post-commercialisation phase to grow sales and optimise value.

Fundamentally, it’s about solving real problems in the NHS and social care, but also accelerating innovation at scale, creating jobs, and fully harnessing economic opportunity.

Graham Watson, Executive Chairman, InnoScot Health

Meet the team

Gillian Henderson

Head of Project Management

Robert Rea

Head of Innovation

Paula Sweeten

Project Manager

Frances Ramsay

Innovation Manager

Fiona Schaefer

Innovation Manager

Leigh Mair

Innovation Manager

News

InnoScot Health’s first spinout receives six-figure investment from Scottish Enterprise

13/09/2023

InnoScot Health’s first spinout success has received a six-figure grant from Scottish Enterprise to create the next generation of prosthetics.

4 minutes

Glasgow children’s hospital adopts Paediatric SCRAM™ Bag after successful project

14/08/2023

A study looking into advanced airway management for critically unwell children has resulted in the Paediatric SCRAM™ (Structured CRitical Airway Management) Bag being adopted at a Glasgow hospital.

5 minutes

Webinar aims to empower next NHS entrepreneurs through experience sharing

11/08/2023

InnoScot Health’s next webinar will focus on NHS Scotland entrepreneurs – forward-thinking members of the workforce who are successfully balancing day to day demands while realising their innovation ambitions.

4 minutes

Lifesaving technology for less invasive heart surgery making international mark

26/07/2023

CardioPrecision, an InnoScot Health spin out company, is making its mark on the international stage with a focus on less invasive treatment of structural heart disease.

5 minutes

Innovation-led future to the fore for Scottish health and social care as NHS turns 75

02/07/2023

Innovation remains a key enabler for NHS Scotland to ramp up recovery transformation and deliver better patient outcomes on its 75^th anniversary, says NHS Scotland innovation partner InnoScot Health.

5 minutes

New innovation call to inspire breakthroughs in treatment for pregnant women and new mothers

06/06/2023

InnoScot Health is aiming to help NHS Scotland improve women’s health with a fresh innovation call targeted at pregnancy and perinatal treatment and care.

6 minutes