CHECK-IN FOR SUCCESS.

Saxony-Anhalt – business location for medical engineering.

The federal state of Saxony-Anhalt is an excellent innovation and business location for medical engineering in Germany. Asia-Pacific companies find in Saxony-Anhalt an excellent research infrastructure of science and very good complement opportunities in the value chain. To present them to potential investors, the Investment and Marketing Corporation of Saxony-Anhalt organizes a medical conference with the title "CHECK-IN FOR SUCCESS Saxony-Anhalt - Business location for medical engineering" in Singapore on February 23^rd, 2016 and in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) on February 25^th, 2016.

Presentations of the conference

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The key note speakers

Oliver Köhn
- Head of Business Development at IMG Saxony-Anhalt -

Birgit Heine
- Senior Manager Medical Engineering at IMG Saxony-Anhalt-

The Investment and Marketing Corporation Saxony-Anhalt mbH (IMG) is the business development agency of German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt. It provides all services relating to company establishment in the state. As one-stop agency, IMG supports companies in the realization of their investment project. It provides individually tailored consultancy from finding a suitable site, information on subsidy and financing matters, to dealing with public authorities up to all matters concerning the realization of the settlement or investment. The services are confidential and free of charge.

Steffen Borlich
- CEO of EKF diagnostics GmbH -

The medical technology company EKF diagnostics GmbH was founded in the German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt in 1990 and acquired by a British investor group in 2011. It has become established as a centre of the international group. It has enjoyed an outstanding reputation for many years in terms of the quality, precision and user friendliness of their analysis equipment and exports worldwide to more than 70 countries.

Prof. Georg Rose, PhD
- Director of the Institute for Medical Engineering at the University Magdeburg, and Chairman of the Executive Board of the Science Campus STIMULATE -

STIMULATE stands for “Solution Centre for Image Guided Local Therapies”. The Science Campus is among the nine sponsored research campuses nationwide. Image-guided, minimally invasive medical engineering products and processes are further developed here. These processes are aimed at being able to diagnose and treat age-related common diseases such as strokes and cancer better. The Science Campus belongs to the University of Magdeburg. Its non-university partners include, for example, the companies Siemens and Philips.

Press kit - always up to date

All news and background information about the conference

Saxony-Anhalt - Business location for Medtech in a state of growth (1 MB) (1 MB)
Formula 1 for medical technology (2 MB) (2 MB)
STIMULATE - Leading-edge R&D campus in image-guided therapy (727 KB) (727 KB)
Press Release Singapore (97 KB) (97 KB)
Press Release Malaysia (96 KB) (96 KB)

Saxony-Anhalt - competence center for Medical Engineering

The medical technology in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt has evolved in the last 10 years to a highly innovative, highly technologized industry and shows continual growth. In innovative conjunction with the local metal working industry, electrical engineering, the plastics industry as well as IT-technology, the medical technology industry in Saxony-Anhalt provides future-oriented and intelligent solutions for the Life Science market. The approximately 75 companies in the state with about 2,200 employees work closely with the outstanding science and research and development landscape. Many companies in Saxony-Anhalt have established themselves worldwide. International leading-edge science projects like the research campus STIMULATE, which is focusing on image-guided, minimally invasive tools for the diagnosis and treatment of specific diseases, have set up here.

Perfect investment location for MedTech companies

According to a study by Ernst&Young from 2015, Saxony-Anhalt leads the Eastern German federal states in foreign direct investments. It is the ideal business location in Germany for Malaysian companies pursuing expansion towards Europe: With a modern infrastructure, highly motivated and qualified workforce, moderate production costs, government incentives and promotions, a stable and secure legal system as well as an excellent research infrastructure and very good complement opportunities in the value chain, the location in the heart of Europe offers ideal conditions for business.