PROM OTING INNOVATIVE RESEARCH THROUGH COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN ACADEMIA AND INDUSTRY

Abstract

Continued exploration o f the health-care scien ce by conducting innovative and health-care outcom e based research has been the m ain reasons for the globally dominating role played by countries o f the developed world. T hese activities have m ade their health-care industry un-match ing interm s o f innovations, technologies and products. A great deal o f such innovation and development has been possible through active collaborations am ong the academ ic research faculty, clinicians, industries and health m inistries. In fact a major proportion o f the finances involved in such research activities has been provided by the
industrial sector. D espite som e unwanted dim ensions o f such collaborative relationship, they have in general
provided an opportunity to researchers and scholars by facilitating their continued engagem ent in research activities.