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Practical Steps to Help the Device Industry

May 3, 2012
Where have all our medical device companies gone? Starting with Medtronic’s introduction of the implantable pacemaker in the 1960s, a cluster of publicly held medical device companies has grown up in Minnesota resulting in the highest per-capita medical device employment of any state. But in the past few years, that growth has not only stopped, it has reversed.
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