Medical technology
Significant levels of creative and innovative medical technology activity make Scotland an attractive location for design, manufacture and commercialisation projects.
Medical technology sector in Scotland
Scotland’s international medical technology network is supported by globally recognised research, state-of-the-art industrial technology facilities and clinical excellence.
Scotland is ideally positioned as your gateway to European and global markets and the fast-growing medical technology market can offer investors earlier returns than other life sciences sectors.
Scottish company, Touch Bionics created the world's first commercially available multi-articulating bionic hand. The i-LIMBTM Hand has five independently powered digits each having their own discrete power and control systems to open and close around objects.
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What is medical technology?
Medical technology brings together areas of science and technology to help diagnose, monitor or treat disease, and improve quality of life and healthcare delivery.
As billions of people worldwide depend on medical technology in their lives, from spectacles and contact lenses to pregnancy kits, dental floss, insulin pens and bandages, the medical technology market is estimated to be worth £150-£170 billion worldwide, growing to around £300 billion by 2015.