Innovation translation
The AO Innovation Translation Center (AO ITC) streamlines and drives innovation projects.
AO ITC activities include the development of clinical solutions with industrial partners, innovation gathering, proof-of-concept studies with innovators, strategic investment in IP, technology, or companies, and evidence creation through clinical research.
Technology Transfer
Helping drive the development and acquisition of innovative approaches to patient care in trauma and musculoskeletal disorders.
Clinical Science
Clinical evidence generated through AO clinical studies can be accessed in the form of journal articles, presentations at scientific meetings, final study reports, guidelines, classifications, and/or news on the AO website.
Clinical Operations
60 years of providing clinical evidence through the professional management of global clinical studies.
AO Technical Commission
Central to the AO ITC's development and valorization of innovations in trauma, spine, craniomaxillofacial, and veterinary surgery.
Innovation news
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InnovationDecember 18, 2020
New AO calls for proposals: turn your ideas into reality
Apply to the AO ITC for Technology Transfer funding today -
InnovationDecember 02, 2020
At the touch of a finger
New OSapp interactively illustrates biomechanical concepts’ relationship to fracture fixation principles -
InnovationNovember 27, 2020
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"Innovation at the AO has remained the same, finding solutions to clinical problems—meeting patient treatment needs. What has changed is implementation and the way that innovation is moving forward."
Robert McGuire, AO Past President