Medical device data

Recently there has been an upsurge in studies using the medical devices industry as their setting. This industry is popular for four reasons:

• high levels of (observable) entrepreneurship: it receives almost 10% of all venture capital (see NVCA data)
• high levels of (observable) technological innovation: patenting is very common (see USPTO)
• high levels of (observable) new product development: national regulation requires new product registration (see FDA)
• high levels of (not so observable) R&D collaboration

Please read this one-page manual on how to collect and interpret FDA medical device data.

Up-to-date registrant data

For the up-to-date registration of medical devices (those currently on the market with their current registrant), please visit this FDA website.

Historical applicant data

Please download the files below for the historical registration (all devices applied for and their historical applicant):

I have some data in a standardized format, but haven't had the time to finish it all. Please contact me if you like to know more about this.