New Ideas

What is the Problem You Are Trying to Solve?

Product Innovation

Clinicians and healthcare professionals know what type of products they need for effective and safe medical procedures. This is why currently over 90% of our new product ideas come from our customers. Without their ideas, our portfolio would not have made some of its recent advances.

What are we interested in producing and marketing?

Smiths Medical offers market-leading solutions in the following major areas: Anaesthesia & Critical Care, Safety Solutions, Pain & Temperature Management and Medication Delivery.

These cover everything from Airway Management, Respiratory Care, Pain Management, Temperature Management, Infusion, Vascular Access, Assisted Reproduction and Patient Monitoring.

Many of the products within our extensive range can also be applied to the military, industrial and veterinary fields.

Would we be interested in your idea?

Very few new products ideas are revolutionary, but simply an improvement or an additional size or type of an existing product. Evolutionary products are just as important, if not more so than the rare revolutionary product concept.

What would Smiths Medical do?

Smiths Medical would evaluate the potential for development of your idea. This process could take several months. In the first instance we would like to receive only non-confidential (general) information about your idea unless it is already in the public domain e.g. published patent application.

Because we are one of the largest manufacturers of medical devices in the world, you will appreciate it is highly possible that we may already be developing a similar product ourselves. Accordingly, please tell us what the purpose of your invention is, what problem it solves, etc.

We recommend you file a patent application before you tell us what the idea is in order to protect us both. If you have a published patent, please state the number below.

If your idea is of interest to us, we will send you a "Confidentiality Agreement" which states we will keep the confidential information secret whilst we conduct market research to determine both the clinical need for and commercial value of your invention.

How to submit an idea

Please fill out the below form to submit an idea and we will be in touch shortly.

All fields marked with an asterisk (*) are required
* Name
* Telephone Number (include country code)
*Country
* Email
Web site (if applicable)
* Title or Keyword Description of idea, concept, or product
*What is the problem you are trying to solve?
Idea Description (Please describe in brief the idea, concept or product. What is it? What does it do? What problem does it address? Why should we be interested?)
I have additional documents and information I can submit about this idea	Yes No
* Product status	Choose the product status concept only IP filled prototype available clinical data available regulatory authority approval finished goods
* Patent?	Yes No
Patent Number
Patent Status	Choose the patent status submitted published granted
* Market Segment	Choose a market segment airway assisted reproduction pain and temperature management patient monitoring infusion safety systems vascular access veterinary
* Partnership seeked	Choose partnership license IP sell business manufacture for Smiths distribution agreement other
* Originator	Choose Originator External: inventor (sole or company) External: representing party External: hospital technology transfer External: university technology transfer External: manufacturer/supplier Internal: sales Internal: product management Internal: R&D Internal: QA Internal: production Internal: management team
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