02/19/2014
Cleveland wins attention as hub of medical innovation
Cleveland "is going from the butt of Hollywood jokes to a hub of innovation," particuarly in the bioscience field, according to a feature from Ozy.com, which bills itself as a "daily news and culture site for the Change Generation."
The story's focal point is Jake Orville, CEO of 5-year-old Cleveland HeartLab, which has licensed several innovations from researchers at the Cleveland Clinic. To date, besides HeartLab, 66 neighboring companies have spun out from Clinic ideas since 2000, the story notes. All told, the Clinic has 525 patents and 450 licensing agreements.
02/18/2014
Hiding Out in Ohio: Bioscience
Down the street from Jake Orville's office in downtown Cleveland you can hear the cutting of steel gears from a nearly 100-year-old manufacturer of machinery parts. Just beyond that lies Millionare's Row, a stretch of historic homes built by industrial tycoons like John Rockefeller and Wester Union founder Jeptha Wade, who dominated the city in the late 1800s and early 1900s. But in the midst of these landmarks to the city's legacy as a manufacturing powerhouse, Orville and his team are working on something Rockefeller and Wade could never have envisioned: patented technologies to test for heart disease.