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Innovation

Innovation is the conversion of knowledge and ideas into a benefit, which may be for commercial use or for the public good. The benefit may be new or improved products, processes or services.

We deal principally with product innovation, commercial opportunities and intellectual property. Download Intellectual Property policy.pdf

We also work in partnership with Bristol NHS Trusts and universities through the Bristol Research and Innovation Group for Health (BRIG-H) www.bristol.ac.uk/fmd/brigh

Intellectual proprerty generated by collaborative projects with our BRIG-H partners will be managed according to the BRIG-H IP Guidelines.
Download BRIG-H guidelines.pdf

Contact Elizabeth Dymond on email elizabeth.dymond@nbt.nhs.uk or telephone 0117 32 36468 if you are:

Internal to NBT and

• have a good idea to benefit patients
• have been asked to work with another organisation outside NBT, including companies
• have any queries about an existing project

External and

• are a company and wish to work with us – we can provide expert opinion, focus groups, product development and product evaluation.

NBT has a portfolio of 10 products for sale and we handle typically 65 disclosures of new ideas every year.

We currently have strong project pipelines with the following departments and are building more:

• Bristol Urological Institute
• Speech & Language Therapy
• Information Management & Technology
• Learning and Development

NBT currently has the following Licensing opportunities:

• Bathing aid – license
• Frenchay Screening Tool for AAC – distribution

Download the Innovation Handbook PDF  which explains:

• The process you need to follow to develop your idea further
• How to protect your Intellectual Property
• The funding streams and awards available for innovations