This paper was prepared as Work Package IV of the AHEAD project – Ageing, Health Status and the Determinants of Health Expenditure – which has received financing from the European Commission under the 6th Research Framework Programme. The purpose of this work package was to build up a...

We investigated the role of public funding in cardiovascular device innovation across 31 countries in Europe. We rely on the knowledge production function (KPF) framework that establishes the knowledge output of a region as a function of innovatory effort and other characteristics of that...

Medizintechnische Innovationen stehen in einem komplexen Spannungsfeld zwischen Machbarkeit, Sicherheit, Wirksamkeit und Wirtschaftlichkeit. Dies verlangt nach geeigneten Steuerungsinstrumenten, die einerseits sicherstellen, dass die Patientensicherheit gewährleistet wird, gleichzeitig aber...