Sectors & Technologies
Medtech
The Netherlands is home to a wide range of highly innovative life sciences and health companies and research organizations.
Top-of-the-bill research institutes -among which are 12 research universities and 82 hospitals- and a number of public-private partnerships between science, industry and government yearly invest some €2 billion in R&D. The Netherlands is the 2nd country in Europe for export and import of medical devices and holds the 8th position worldwide when it comes to patent applications in the field of life sciences and health.
Renown brands like GE, Medtronic, Siemens, Abbott, Philips, Johnson & Johnson mark the Dutch life sciences and health landscape.
Medtech
Highly innovative med-tech cluster
Brainport Eindhoven is known for its strong cluster in medical technology for which Philips once laid the basis. Nowadays the region houses a number of large companies, state-of-the-art knowledge institutes, highly innovative SME’s, promising start-ups, med-tech suppliers and contract manufacturers.
Moreover, Philips has a large Healthcare Campus in the region and a high amount of fundamental and applied research is done into the field of medical technologies.
What characterises Brainport Eindhoven’s med-tech field is co-creation by companies and knowledge institutes and crosspollination from other sectors because of the region’s unique high tech profile.
Moreover, Brainport Eindhoven excels at combining the expertise of clinicians, academics, and (biomedical) engineers and developing from the perspective of and with end-users.

Medtech
Medtech
How Brainport Eindhoven reinforces your business
Ideal place for technology spotting
Brainport Eindhoven is an ideal place for technology spotting because of its many knowledge institutes and promising start-ups in medical technology that perform ground-breaking research.
Excellent region for piloting
Brainport Eindhoven is an ideal region for piloting because of the small-scale, inventiveness, tech-mindedness of inhabitants and high English proficiency of both clinicians as patients.
Top-notch digital infrastructure
Our excellent digital infrastructure makes Brainport Eindhoven highly suited for pilots testing digital solutions.
Developing technological health solutions with experts and patients
We develop technological health solutions with a central position for the end-user, in close cooperation with engineers, physicians, hospitals and patients.
We help in getting a CE quality label for a global market in a short amount of time
Many high-tech contract manufacturers with a proven track record in health
Large amount of high-tech contract manufacturers with a proven track record in health that help you improve the performance of your technology and products-We help turning medical technology into business
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