2017 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
A Global Business History of the Medical Device Industry Since 1945: Coevolution of Global Firms, SMEs & Science
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17K03839
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
ドンゼ ピエール・イヴ 大阪大学, 経済学研究科, 教授 (20635718)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2017-04-01 – 2021-03-31
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| Keywords | Medtech / Business History / Innovation / Medical device / Health industry |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
During FY2017, I focused on the following tasks:
1) Realization of a database of medtech patents around the world between 1960 and 2015 (more than 500,000 patents)
2) Submission of a research paper on the global X-ray equipment industry, co-written with Prof. Ben Wubs, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
3) Preparation of the special issue "Health Industries in the Twentieth Century" for Business History, in collaboration with Prof. Paloma Fernandez, University of Barcelona
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
The preparation of the database took much more time than expected, but it is now well advanced and should become the basis of the research for the coming three years.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In FY2018, I intend to do the following tasks:
1) Finalization of the patent database
2) Presentation of first results at the World Economic History Conference (Boston, August 2018)
3) Preparation of research papers
4) Start of joint research plan with Dr. Mariama Kaba, University of Lausanne (Switzerland), on the history of orthopedic devices around the world after 1945
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