New Zealand industry healthy and with a bright future
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
New Zealand’s 89 small-to-medium medical device companies earn the country around NZ$550m (US$281m) per year (NZ$554m in 2007-08) and employ around 3,000 people in total. And according to “The New Zealand Medical Technologies Sector Overview”, which was commissioned by the country’s biotechnology association NZBio, direct, indirect and induced income from the sector contributes around NZ$1.1bn to the local economy, which is expected to increase to NZ$2.95bn in three to five years.