TY - BOOK AU - Mazumdar-Shaw, Kiran TI - Leveraging affordable innovation to tackle India's healthcare challenge KW - Affordable innovation KW - Healthcare KW - Affordability KW - Accessibility KW - Technology in healthcare KW - Incentivising innovation KW - Innovative healthcare delivery KW - Low-cost technology N2 - Affordable innovation, which presents ways to innovate, be flexible, and do more with less, can help a complex and resource-constrained country like India address challenges in healthcare delivery. Such a model can ensure that healthcare is “available” and “accessible” to every citizen of the country on a sustainable basis. For this, the nation's innovation capability needs to be enhanced through the right kind of fiscal incentives, policy support, financing mechanisms, human capital and best-in-class infrastructure. The aim should be to create a virtuous cycle of basic and applied science where knowledge is seamlessly translated into practical solutions to address unmet healthcare needs ER -