Health authorities are constantly searching for new ways to stabilise health expenditures. To explore this issue, we compared the costs generated by different types of medical practice in French general medicine: i.e. conventional (CM-GP), homeopathic (Ho-GP), or mixed (Mx-GP). Data from a...

Innovative products form the foundation for the international success of electromedical technology in Germany. This is shown both in the strong sales achieved by the German medical technology segment compared with other industrial countries and the export share of more than 70%, which even...

This report updates the 2006 analysis in line with the present requirements of BIS.Techniques used in patent landscaping have also evolved since the first report so the analysis in this project is specifically based around the country of residence of patent applicants.This gives a better...