„The availability of skilled workforce with good languages kills , mature shared services presence in the market, developed infrastructure, central location and time-zone”
Joerg BAUER
„Establish this important production facility in Hungary because of the proximity to the important European customers it will serve. The availability of a highly skilled workforce, access to qua lified subcontractors”
Claude DARTIGUELONGUE
INNOVATION
MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY IN HUNGARY
100 YEARS IF INNOVATION
1918
Industrial scale manufacturing of X-ray machines commenced.
1929
Philips founded a trading company and later established its X-ray factory in Hungary. In the 1920s and 1930s a number of domestic manufacturers produced various types of medical devices.
1948-49
Small enterprises were nationalized and Medicor Művek was formed from Hungary’s medical technology companies. Medicor manufactured 450 types of equipment and 1,500 different kinds of medical instruments. A tits peak, the company employed 10,000 people and had representatives in 35 countries around the world
1960s
In the 1960s, another company - Medical Aids Factory - played a significant role in patient’s rehabilitation by large scale manufacturing of a range of assistive medical devices for people with disabilies.
Present
150 companies are engaged in medical device manufacturing in Hungary.
Labour Force
TERTIARY EDUCATION IN HUNGARY
Academic year 2014/2015
THE EF ENGLISH PROFICIENCY INDEX 2014 (%)
