title: Medtech: Potential for innovation.
abstract: Switzerland, with its ETHZ and EPFL, universities, advanced technical colleges, the CSEM, the Empa and the Paul Scherrer Institute, possesses a complete chain of knowledge and interdisciplinary competence which ranks it among the worldwide leaders in medical technology. To ensure that a wider range of excellent research results are translated into marketable products and methods, the CTI Agency for the Promotion of Innovation launched the Medtech initiative, a success story.
authors.affiliation: CTI Medtech, NOVO Business Consultants AG, Gutenbergstrasse 50, CH-3011 Berne, Switzerland. gilberto.bestetti@novo-bc.ch
authors.forename: Gilberto
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bestetti
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D006310:Hearing Aids; D006801:Humans; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000295:instrumentation*; D009339:Needles; D013557:Switzerland; D018581:Technology Transfer