Global The world’s top 10 medical technology companies for 2022 according to Medical Product Outsourcing (MPO). Abbott leads the way, followed by Medtronic, J&J, and Siemens Healthineers. Recent PharmaBoardroom interviews with some of these companies’ leading executives include Hugo F. Villegas, SVP & President, Canada & Latin America at Medtronic, Eman…
Korea Global medtech giant Medtronic is hoping that its latest acquisition – EOFlow, a South Korean wearable insulin patch maker – will enhance its competitiveness in the global diabetes market. The acquisition deal, as reported by Hyun-Ah Oh from Korea Economic Daily, involves the purchase of all shares held by…
Korea A roundup of some of the most important recent stories from the burgeoning South Korean pharma and biotech industry, including a government plan to expand collaboration with the global innovation hub in Boston, US; a list of some of the country’s most important biotech companies; and Medtronic’s move to purchase…
Greece Country managers from three leading medtech multinationals give their take on the key access challenges facing medical device companies in Greece. New Access Models “While some value-based procurement agreements have been struck in the private sector, we are struggling to gain acceptance for such agreements in the public sector.…
Greece Greek medtech industry veteran Dimitris Nikas outlines what makes him optimistic about the future of Greek healthcare, highlights the areas for systemic improvement and how EU recovery funding could help, and explains Greece’s relevance to Medtronic as an increasingly open early launch market for some of its most innovative new…
LatAm A vibrant and diverse continent, home to over 650 million people and the highest life expectancy among developing regions, Latin America is now emerging as a globally relevant life sciences investment destination. LatAm has a robust heritage of scientific achievement – Bernardo Houssay (1947) and César Milstein (1984) of Argentina…
LatAm Latin America is renowned for its creative geniuses – think footballers like Lionel Messi and Pelé; magical realist authors such as Gabriel García Márquez and Isabel Allende; and ground-breaking artists like Frida Kahlo and Wilfredo Lam. This tradition of creativity permeates the continent’s population, who are well used to dreaming…
LatAm Latin America is a rapidly growing market for the global medtech industry, offering significant opportunities. With a population of over 650 million people, the region boasts a large and growing middle class that are showing increasing demand for high-quality healthcare services and medical technologies. In recent years, the Latin American…
LatAm Latin America is a crucial region for medtech market leader Medtronic. Home to 20,000 of the company’s 95,000+ global workforce, 12 manufacturing plants, and ten commercial organisations, Medtronic LatAm grew by an impressive 24 percent last fiscal year and is becoming an increasingly important global revenue driver. The firm’s SVP…
Egypt While evidence and recognition are growing that gender-balanced and diverse management teams at all levels of hierarchies produce positive business outcomes, the MENA region still has a long road to travel in this respect. Only 11 percent of senior management positions in MENA firms and just four percent of board…
Egypt Based in Egypt, Medtronic Africa’s regional vice president, Eman Ali, speaks about the challenges of building a strategic roadmap and local capabilities for the entire African continent from the ground up and adapting it to each country’s needs by working directly with Medtronic’s own team of 500 across 13 countries,…
Italy Digitalisation has become a buzz word in in the global life sciences sector. In Italy, digital transformation has taken on special significance as one of the principal goals encompassed in the country’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan and a priority within its healthcare modernisation plans. Novel solutions came out…
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