The Formation of the Swiss Hospital System (1840–1960)
An Analysis of Surgeon-Modernisers in the Canton of Vaud
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Formation of Medtech Big Business
This chapter continues the general overview of the medtech industry, this time using a ranking of the top 100 largest firms in 2014, published by the professional publication Medical Design & Outsourcing. For eac...
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Conclusion
The example of hospital medicine in the Canton of Vaud during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries shows that the history of medicine approached from the angle of hospital systems makes it possible to highli...
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The French Medtech Industry: A Lack of International Competitiveness
Most European countries, with the notable exception of Germany and Switzerland, have a negative trade balance in medtech. This chapter analyzes the case of France and highlights the source of its dependence on...
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Conclusion
The last chapter of the book offers a general discussion and conclusion to the book. It first draws a general comparison between the main nations engaged in the medtech industry. Second, the discussion aims to...
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Introduction
This introduction presents the relevance and meaning of the unique perspective of the book to offer a new understanding of the formation of contemporary hospital systems. Based on a detailed discussion of inte...
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Introduction
The general introduction of this book explains the nature of the medical device industry (medtech) and the conditions of its emergence during the 1970s–1980s. It presents the approaches used (business history ...
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Management and Organisation at the Cantonal Hospital of Lausanne
This chapter focuses on the transformation of Lausanne Cantonal Hospital after the implementation of new work practices by surgeon modernisers. It focuses mostly on three major issues: the evolution of the str...
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Building a Hospital Policy
This chapter discusses the evolution of state policy regarding healthcare and hospitals. The transformation of the socio-technical medical system explored in the previous chapters drastically changed the natur...
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Japan: From Electronics to Medical Technology
Japan is the second-largest nation in the global medtech industry, and its firms present several specificities in regard to other major nations. The most important feature is that large diversified electronics...
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Orthopedics SMEs and Pharmaceutical Giants in Switzerland
Switzerland is a small, open economy, and its medtech industry is one of the most integrated in the existing global networks. An examination of M&A activity shows the prominent presence of foreign (mostly US a...
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The Rise of a New Medtech Giant: China
China is today one of the most innovative countries in the medtech industry. This chapter discusses the role of new policies supporting the development of the industry after the “Lehman Shock” and the rapid de...
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Surgeons of the Canton of Vaud in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
This chapter offers a discussion about the transformation of the work of surgeons between the 1840s and the 1960s. It shows the impact of new medical technologies (operating rooms, X-ray machines, etc.) and pr...
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The Dynamics of the Global Medtech Industry
This chapter offers a general overview of the development of the global medtech industry since the 1960s on the basis of three major kinds of statistics: foreign trade (via the COMTRADE database), patent appli...
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The Transformation of Regional Hospitals
A total of 15 regional hospitals were founded in the countryside of the canton of Vaud between 1840 and 1890. All of them were small private organisations, controlled by philanthropists close to the Free Churc...
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The Lasting Competitive Advantage of US Firms
This chapter provides general data about the US medtech and investigates two main models of companies. First, there are the giants of the electronic industry, especially General Electric. A classical business ...
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Germany: Between Siemens and Specialized Medtech Firms
The German medtech industry is characterized by the substantial weight of long-standing SMEs specializing in optical and surgical instruments. Most of them are family-firms founded before World War II (sometim...
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The Postwar Medtech Industry in Japan: A Business History Perspective
This chapter discusses the dynamics of the Japanese medtech industry since the 1960s, based on an analysis of patents, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) databases. It demonstrates the stability of the structu...
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Industrial Leadership and the Long-Lasting Competitiveness of the Swiss Watch Industry
Despite the Swiss watch industry has been challenged several times by US and Japanese companies during the last two centuries, it showed a strong resilience. Switzerland is still today the uncontested world’s ...
