Medical technology
Easy access to technology and a lower cost of entry are creating a crowd of startups making new gear
SOFTWARE helped startups flourish, with open-source programs and the web providing easy collaboration and a fast route to market. Tens of thousands of software developers will produce apps worth more than $30 billion this year. Now cheap computing power and the shrinking cost of small-scale manufacturing are spawning more hardware startups. As examples from Europe show, a particularly thriving area is medical technology.
