Everything you need for a medtech adventure
Denmark is one of Europe’s leading medical technology nations – and base for a critical mass of world-leading companies.
When it comes to medical technology, Denmark is one of Europe’s leading medical technology nations. Many world-leading players are based here, including Coloplast, ReSound GN, Invacare, Oticon, Philips Healthcare, Widex, Cook Group and Agilent.
We can offer your business a number of attractive opportunities. Whether you seek research and development collaborations, design and innovation expertise, test and demonstration facilities, public-private partnerships or high-tech production, you will find everything right here.
We can offer your business a number of attractive opportunities. Whether you seek research and development collaborations, design and innovation expertise, test and demonstration facilities, public-private partnerships or high-tech production, you will find everything right here.
When you place your medical technology activities in Denmark, your company gets access to:
- A collaborative business environment with strong links between industry players, universities and hospitals.
- Profound knowledge of the three main building blocks of the medical technology industry: medtech design, engineering and clinical competence.
- A culture for participatory design.
- A highly-skilled talent pool, with healthcare technology graduates from world-class academic institutions.
- Basic and applied research – and a culture for transferring knowledge and technology to the market.
- An innovative tech cluster with competencies in computer science, telecommunications and electronics.
- A strategic location near producers of leading, internationally recognised products.
Denmark has world-class expertise in the following areas:
Medical diagnostics
- Immediate access to a world-class talent pool and academic institutions of proven excellence.
- A strong knowledge base with diagnostic equipment knowledge at business and university level.
- Cutting edge research and development.
- Broad capabilities within engineering and medical disciplines.
- Easy access to computer science, telecommunications and electronics resources from Denmark’s innovative tech cluster.
Medical disposables
- Strategic location close to the industry leaders behind well-known international products, for example Ambu, Coloplast, Dansac, Novo Nordisk and Thermo Fisher Scientific.
- Access to world-class academic institutions within materials science.
- Innovative, interdisciplinary approach to new product design and production.
- A strong focus on technology, design, functionality, high quality and user-friendliness.
- Proven capabilities within translating end-user needs into state-of-the-art products.
Assistive technologies
- Internationally recognised products and services.
- Pioneering reputation within the elderly and disabled sector, based on a socio-political will to ensure equal opportunities for all.
- Innovative industry players dedicated to designing products and services that meet the needs of disabled people.
- Development and production strategies based on user input.
- Design focus on functionality, quality and user-friendliness.
Why Medtronic invests in Denmark Mette-Marie Harild, Vice President
The Danish medtech industry in numbers
- Denmark is home to approx. 900 companies that operate in the medtech field. More than 250 are dedicated medtech companies.
- More than 95 percent of Danish medtech revenue is generated in export markets – making Denmark one of Europe’s largest exporters of medical technology products per capita.
- The productivity of the medtech industry in Denmark is almost twice as high as the Danish business community in general.
- Dedicated medtech companies employ 15,000+ people, with an additional 22,000+ people employed as subcontractors. Measured per capita, this makes Denmark the third largest medtech employer in Europe.
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