French medtech entrepreneurialism needs infrastructural back-up
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
France does not lack innovative capacity in medical devices, but the infrastructures to support SMEs and start-ups need to be improved. That is the view of Odile Corbin, head of French medtech industry association Snitem. On a recent Snitem press trip to local innovators SuperSonic Imagine and Ekkyo, the consensus was that medtech companies need more help in clearing the increasingly high regulatory hurdles and also in gaining access to funding in France’s new healthcare landscape. IBI Informa principal analyst Ashley Yeo reports