Driving progress

Better hearing through collaboration

Our passion for progress drives us to restore hearing for as many people as possible. Dedication and determination help us pioneer new technology and care models. But progress doesn’t stop there.

To achieve this, we identify the best possible partnerships that can help patients hear everyday.

Everyone who becomes a Cochlear hearing implant recipient embarks on a lifetime of collaboration as well. Not just with us, but with the hearing health community. And we’re with new users at each step, learning the best ways to help and support them throughout their hearing journey.

Partnerships form an important part of delivering new innovation, updates and improvements.

Our partnerships with other companies

Apple and Android

We work with the leaders in smartphone technology, Apple and Android, to make sure recipients can stream sound directly to compatible Cochlear devices through their smartphone or tablet. This means listening to music, watching and streaming entertainment and making video or voice phone conversations.

Resound

Cochlear and ReSound, a leader in the hearing aid industry, collaborate in the Smart Hearing Alliance to develop bimodal technology. Together we provide hearing solutions for people with all types of hearing loss. Whether the need is for hearing aids, hearing implants, or a combination of both in a bimodal fitting, our solutions work together seamlessly.

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Cochlear and John Hopkins announced a partnership in March 2018 to establish the Cochlear Centre for Hearing and Public Health based in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

With a focus on addressing the global impact of hearing loss through research, particularly on adults, the centre provides a united approach to crafting policies and strategies to improve public health. To effectively optimise the health and function of an aging society, their vision is to become the premier global resource for ground-breaking research and training on hearing loss and public health.

Research and development

Innovating makes it possible to offer high-performance, reliable and durable hearing solutions to users. It is for this reason that we continuously invest in research and development.

Continued investment into research and development 

• 

  AUD$ 2 Billion

  R&D

• 

  6

  Manufacturing sites

• 

  100+

  Research programs

• 

  550

  Global engineers

• More than $AUD 2 billion invested to date into research and development.
• Six manufacturing sites around the world.
• Involvement in over 100 collaborative research programs worldwide.
• A team of more than 550 engineers as qualified as they are passionate.