APACMed released a whitepaper titled ‘Building a Research-Linked Incentive (RLI) Framework: Making India an Innovation Hub for Medical Devices’. At a time when India stands at the cusp of redefining its role in the global health ecosystem, this document brings forth a timely, insightful, and actionable roadmap to strengthen India’s MedTech innovation capabilities. The paper highlights the Government of India’s R&D vision for the medical devices sector, current gaps in the research landscape of the Indian MedTech sector, and proposes a structure to strengthen the suggested RLI framework for medtech in India.