The Covid-19 pandemic tragically emphasized severe failures of health systems. In particular, the saturation of hospital infrastructures and the lack of medical devices is crucial for respiratory ventilators. The medical and pharmaceutical sectors had to find urgently new ways to innovate...

The COVID-19 pandemic has precipitated an unprecedented call for global solidarity that included a proposal to waive key obligations under the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights. The governance of intellectual property in a global health crisis entails...

Applications of design of experiments to pharmaceutical quality control / Evelin Gutierrez, José A. Rodriguez, Julian Cruz-Borbolla -- Metrology in science : health and technology / Adriana Nava Vega -- High-performance liquid chromatography as quality-control for pharmaceutical and medical...

Introduction -- 1 The dynamics of the global medtech industry -- 2 Formation of medtech big business -- 3 The lasting competitive advantage of US firms -- 4 Japan: From electronics to medical technology -- 5 Germany: Between Siemens and specialized medtech firms -- 6 Orthopedics SMEs and...