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David Brownlee

David Brownlee is the Innovation Advisor for Health and Social Care (HSC) throughout N. Ireland (equivalent to NHS in England), where he heads up the HSC Innovations regional service.

David graduated with First Class honours and a PhD from Queens University, Belfast in the early 90’s. After a period of Medical Research Council funded post-doctoral research, he then moved into technology transfer at the University of Southampton, subsequently consolidating these skills at the University of Ulster, prior to taking up the current position of Innovation Advisor within the N. Ireland Health Service in January 2005. Over the past 5 years he has been responsible for amongst other things; the creation and delivery of the "Supporting Innovation in the HPSS " framework project, the roll-out and adoption of the Innovation Policy for HSC, securing both the funding for and developing the infrastructure of HSC Innovations as a regional service; and managing and commercialising a pipeline of varied technologies in the healthcare arena. Within the technology transfer arena David is involved in all aspects of the innovation process, as well as strategic management of technology portfolios. His interests include intellectual asset management, research translation, assessing value (savings) of the introduction of healthcare technologies, technology management and innovation strategy. He represents HSC in this important area of Innovation within the healthcare environment both nationally and internationally.

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