Jon Excell

C2I 2017: Inspiring innovation in the medical devices sector

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The Centre for Innovative and Collaborative Construction Engineering is one of the UK’s longest-running Industrial Doctoral Centres sponsored by EPSRC, having been operational since 1999. It has facilitated 151 projects involving 101 companies, including Arup, AECOM, Balfour Beatty and Eon. As well as attracting more than £12m grants, £3.

Through the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Medical Devices, academia and industry are driving the UK’s  medical devices sector forward. 

Collaborate To Innovate 2017

Category: Academic innovator

Winner: EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Medical Devices

Partners: Universities of Leeds, Bradford, Newcastle, Nottingham & Sheffield; Ceramisys; Corinthian Surgical; DePuy Synthes; Eminate; Fripp Design; Glass Technology Services; JRI Orthopaedics; Materialise NV; NetComposites; NIHR LMBRV; Promethean Particles; Simpleware; Simulation Solutions; Surgical Innovations

Category Sponsor: BAE Systems

Perhaps it’s because so many of its products are implanted out of sight in the body, but the UK medical devices sector rarely gets the credit as one of the most innovative and fastest growing areas of the UK engineering economy. 

One initiative that’s played a major role in helping to drive this sharp upward trajectory is the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Medical Devices (MeDe Innovation), which has brought together some of the UK’s top research groups and leading firms in an effort to advance expertise in orthopaedic medical device manufacture.

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