UK Looks To Model New Medtech Strategy On US Successes

The UK medtech industry sees the US very much as both a vital market and learning ground for future business and health-care system successes. That was the tone at recent meetings involving the UK industry association, which is ramping up its US-facing activity.

The UK is now drawing up a new life-sciences strategy, the medtech elements of which will seek to emulate the activities and programs run out of Minneapolis, the Bay Area and Boston in the US. It is also looking at a small handful of other global hubs in Germany, Shanghai, Ireland, Singapore and Israel, as models.

Junior UK health minister Lord Prior of Brampton described the attributes of these US and other hubs that he wants...

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