Editor - Norbert Sparrow

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Economic Crisis (You Can Too!)

So, how bad is it? Well, maybe not as bad as all that . . . if you’re part of the medical technology industry. That’s the conclusion I draw from a couple of surveys that were published in October.

During roughly the same time frame, international consultancy Emergo Group (Austin, TX, USA; www.emergogroup.com) polled people in the medical device and IVD industries worldwide, and pan-European industry association Eucomed (Brussels; www.eucomed.be) commissioned a survey of European med-tech stakeholders. The results had much in common, and were surprisingly at odds with the prevailing economic gloom-and-doom scenarios.  Med-tech industry professionals and observers, it avers, are fairly upbeat about the sector’s economic prospects as we prepare to stare down 2009.