Collaborate to Innovate

Introduction

Yorkshire Forward’s Centres of Industrial Collaboration have made huge technical advances that benefit the region’s businesses.

Summary

Collaboration is the key to successful innovation and the Yorkshire Forward Centres of Industrial Collaboration (CIC) can help to unlock the cutting edge technical expertise and specialist resources you need to drive your innovation process forward.

The Yorkshire Forward Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Centre of Industrial Collaboration (BITECIC Ltd) combines the world-class expertise of over 100 researchers at Leeds, Sheffield and York Universities, as well as the active involvement of clinical collaborators at the University hospitals. The centre provides organisations with state-of-the-art facilities, dedicated project management and commercial know-how, services which have proven invaluable for companies working with orthopaedics, wound care, urology and cardiac or cardiovascular surgery.

“Conclusive test data on our artificial knee joints, generated from work with Yorkshire Forward’s Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Centre of Industrial Collaboration, gave real credibility to the product benefits promoted within our marketing material. This has genuinely led to significant growth in sales opportunities for us”
Keith Jackson, Technical Director
JRI

“Testing and developing our new product  with the Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering CIC gave us, our customers and partners the confidence to go on to human implants. They helped to make a unique medical advance in record time in response to a genuine human need.”
John McKenna, Chief Executive Officer
Koehler Medical Ltd

You can find out more about our Centres of Industrial Collaboration here.

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