Barriers to Industry-Academia Collaboration — A Study With a Focus on the Indian Medical Devices Sector

Giving a summary of the Indian medical devices industry, the article starts by highlighting the over-dependence of the medical devices sector on imports and the need for an effective industry-academia collaboration. Such collaborations are not common in India. Academicians involved with medical device research and the healthcare sector were selected to administer a questionnaire on the barriers with a five-point Likert scale and through interviews. The barriers were analyzed from the perspective of sub-themes of the Triple Helix model - Relationship, Policy, and Perceptions. Barriers falling under the subtheme of Relationships were found to be the most common barriers.