title: The device industry in Germany.
abstract: Germany is Europe's leading medical device market. Home to a number of large multi-national medical equipment manufacturing companies, the market is highly competitive and considered difficult to penetrate. In recent years, it has experienced constant growth, which despite problems with health-care funding, looks set to continue.
authors.affiliation: BVMed, Wiesbaden, Germany.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Schmitt
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004465:Economic Competition; D004864:Equipment and Supplies / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000191:economics; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards