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Q&A: Ireland's Success In Attracting Medtech Companies

 
• By Reed Miller

Medtech Insight talked to Rachel Shelly, the Head of Medical Technologies for IDA Ireland, about the Irish government's continuing efforts to attract medtech companies, the implications of Brexit, and the growing emphasis on data-analytics within the medtech industry in Ireland.

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Ireland is an example of a country successfully developing a medtech industry by making it a national priority, and the country's leadership expects it to stay that way.

The country of 4.8 million people employs the highest number of medtech personnel per capita in Europe and 32,000 of...

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