By Ames Gross, President and Founder of Pacific Bridge Medical This article was also published on MedTech Intelligence. To succeed in Asia, you must know the region, which involves performing extensive primary market research to determine the size and growth rate of your... Read More
By Ames Gross, President and Founder of Pacific Bridge Medical This article was also published on MedTech Intelligence. Japan is a large country with more than 125 million people, and it is still the second largest medical device market in the world—even if China... Read More
By Ames Gross, President and Founder of Pacific Bridge Medical This article was also published on MedTech Intelligence. A few days after President Trump’s trip to Asia, I made my own business trip to the region. While President Trump hailed his trip as a... Read More
By Ames Gross, President and Founder of Pacific Bridge Medical This article was also published on MedTech Intelligence. In 1982 after graduating with a MBA from Columbia University, I worked as an overpaid yuppie helping Japanese institutional investors buy American skyscrapers and companies from... Read More
By Ames Gross, President and Founder of Pacific Bridge Medical This article was also published on MedTech Intelligence. In my past articles and blogs, I talked about the main issues medtech companies face in exporting to China, including a difficult product registration process, finding... Read More
By Ames Gross, President and Founder of Pacific Bridge Medical This article was also published on MedTech Intelligence. In late 2014, China announced new medical device regulations. One of the most important new regulations stated that all Class II and Class III devices will... Read More
By Ames Gross, President and Founder of Pacific Bridge Medical This blog post was also published on MedTech Intelligence. There are many challenges to succeeding in China’s medical device market. Let’s first talk about the roadblocks to success. One barrier is the difficulty of... Read More
By Ames Gross, President and Founder of Pacific Bridge Medical This blog post was also published on MedTech Intelligence. As medtech companies move into the Asian markets, they will find that the Chinese medical device registration process can be very difficult. Today, it is... Read More
By Ames Gross, President and Founder of Pacific Bridge Medical This blog post was also published on MedTech Intelligence. International medical device companies are increasingly required to conduct local clinical trials for medical device approval in Asia. However, finding, qualifying, and selecting the right... Read More
By Ames Gross, President and Founder of Pacific Bridge Medical This blog post was also published on MedTech Intelligence. In the last 15 years, local clinical trials were almost never required to register a high-risk imported medical device in China, even for the... Read More