Reinvigorated German Innovation Strategy May Succeed Where Market Access Tools Have Failed
Executive Summary
German medtech manufacturers hope that the fledgling coalition government's promise to give new impetus to the long-running national medtech strategy initiative will help achieve the very innovations that much-vaunted reimbursement fast-tracking mechanisms have failed to yield.
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