Article preview reprinted from IN VIVO - October 2008
Find out about one of the most successful centers of medical device innovation, Israel is wrestling with that success and adopting new models to build on it.
Israel's Device Community: Finding New Models as Medtech Matures
Article preview reprinted from IN VIVO - October 2008
Few medical device industry executives would quarrel with the notion that Israel has been one, if not the leading, sources of new device technology over the past decade or so. Anecdotally, some large US device companies now say that one-third to one-half of the new companies and devices they look at either come from Israel or originated there. Today, Israel ranks number-one in the world in patent applications for medical device technology and first in patents per capita, and the list of innovative devices that have come out of Israel would cover all therapeutic areas and all technological fields—including some where Israeli companies seem to have a particular affinity or expertise such as innovative imaging devices and robotics--and would be simply too long to list. So why are so many Israeli device executives, both company types and investors, so anxious these days?
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Companies mentioned in this article:
Angioslide Ltd.
Atria Medical Inc.
BioControl Medical Ltd.
Boston Scientific Corp.
BrainsGate Ltd.
Cardiac Science Corp.
ColBar LifeScience Ltd.
Covidien Ltd.
United States Surgical D-Pharm Ltd.
Elbit Medical Imaging Ltd.
Elscint Ltd.
Given Imaging Ltd.
Lumenis Ltd.
Medinol Ltd.
Medtronic Inc.
Medtronic Sofamor Danek
Odin Medical Technologies
Protalix Biotherapeutics Ltd.
Spectranetics Corp.
Stryker Corp.
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.
TopSpin Medical VisionCare
Ophthalmic Technologies Inc.
ev3 Inc.
superDimension Ltd.
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