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Wisconsin ? The Land of Medical Clusters!
The Wisconsin Department of Commerce maintains an updated database of their medical devices cluster as well as planned cluster development in other related fields. A recent article in a state newspaper, highlighted the case of the Marshfield area within the state that was adopting planned growth in the medical field as early as 20 years ago.
Jordan: pharmaceuticals cluster growth & medical services cluster report
Jordan government experts expect that its pharmaceutical industry will quadruple over the next 8 years and the U.S. Agency for International Development reports on Jordan's Medical Services Cluster.
Files
- The Jordan Medical Services Cluster (2002)- Hana Dajani, in collaboration with Chemonics International Inc., prime contractor to the U.S. Agency for International Development for the AMIR Program in J
- Jordan-medical cluster-512 Final Report.pdf
Links
- Catalonia pharmaceutical cluster competitiveness reinforcement initiative
pharma.competitiveness.com- Industry cluster - Biomedical
- Information on biomedical clusters in New York.
http://www.nylovesbiz.com/NYS_Home_To_Business/Industry_Clusters/biomedical.asp - Medilink East
- MedilinkEast was formed in 1998 to stimulate growth in the medical technology sector by establishing effective and sustainable partnerships between customers (hospitals, clinicians etc.), innovators (Universities and research organisations) and suppliers (companies providing medical equipment)
www.medilinkeast.com/ - MedInSoft
- MedInSoft is the Mediterranean network of the creators of software.
Created on the initiative of the Data-processing Club of Provence at the end of 2003, it has the role to federate competences and the resources of the software publishers of Provence the Alps Riviera and Corsica.
MedInSoft is a major actor of the development of the regional die of the software industry.
By its structuring action, MedInSoft reinforces the development and the performance of the creators of software.
The regional economic actors find in the vicinity, in MedInSoft, the data-processing solutions necessary to the improvement of their competitiveness.
www.medinsoft.org/ - Multidisciplinary Assessment of Technology Centre for Healthcare (MATCH)
- MATCH is a research collaboration between five leading UK universities in healthcare technology assessment, and a cohort of industrial partners. It is recognised and funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) as a centre of excellence in its field, having been awarded the status of Innovative Manufacturing Research centre (IMRC).
www.match.ac.uk - New Jersey Life Science Super-Cluster Initiative
- Report by Michael E. Porter prepared for Prosperity New Jersey, regarding the current competitive position of the Life Science super-cluster in New Jersey.
www.isc.hbs.edu/pdf/NJ_lifescience.pdf - New Tools for Life
- Hälsans nya verktyg is a regional initiative for growth with its core in Östergötland, Sweden. The focus is on health and health related business. Its mission is to make the region of Östergötland a prime mover in the development of individually adapated solutions for best possible health.
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The main motives are a great and growing market potential and a suitable regional profile with roots in the academic society, the business environment and public organisations. Primarily focused product areas are sports, personal health, distributed care and personal care.
The primary objective is to generate growth in the region through a successive introduction of the new products on the great and growing international market.
www.halsansnyaverktyg.se/?sid=768&parent=749 - Uppsala BIO
- The region of Uppsala, located 20 minutes north of Stockholm-Arlanda international airport, is today a buoyant center of biotechnology. In this comparatively small area, we find about one fourth of Sweden’s biotech sector in the shape of universities, industry and national agencies.
Uppsala has a long tradition of working with biotechnology, especially tools and methods for research and development in the life sciences. Pioneering core technologies such as ultracentrifugation, electrophoresis, gel filtration and affinity chromatography were invented by Uppsala scientists. Many of these developments have spun off into successful products sold the world over by Uppsala-based companies.
www.uppsalabio.com - Wellbeing Cluster Lower Austria
- The Wellbeing cluster Lower Austria
interlaces enterprise to the main topics health tourism, preventive medicine and natural products. In addition participants come from supplementing ranges such as F&E, qualification, movement, healthy nutrition, Ausstatter
www.wellbeingcluster.at
