Monument of Polish physicist and chemist, and the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, Marie Sklodowska Curie in Warsaw. Curie embodies the spirit of European medtech innovation that continues today. Image: Fotokon/Shutterstock We look at 12 innovative start-ups from across Europe that are keeping the flame of European medtech innovation alive. Europe has always been at the crossroads of medical innovation, going back to the creation of the Hippocratic Oath around 420BC to the ground-breaking work of Marie Sklodowska Curie in pioneering radiological research and Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin in the 20th century.