India-Germany Deepen Medical Technology Cooperation in Strategic Partnership Push

The cooperation builds on the Innovation and Technology Partnership Roadmap and aims to translate scientific collaboration into deployable healthcare solutions.

India and Germany have agreed to deepen cooperation in medical technology and digital health under a newly articulated “limitless” economic partnership, announced during German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s first official visit to India.

Merz’s visit comes at a milestone moment in India-Germany relations, following the seventh Inter-Governmental Consultations held recently and ahead of the completion of 25 years of the Strategic Partnership in 2025. Diplomatic relations between the two countries will mark 75 years in 2026.

During the visit, both leaders welcomed progress in critical and emerging technologies, with medical technology and the bioeconomy identified as priority areas alongside digitalisation and telecommunications.

Addressing the India-Germany CEOs Forum, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “We have decided to make this seamless economic partnership limitless. This means that along with traditional economic sectors, there will now be deeper cooperation in strategic sectors as well.”

He added that India’s sustained growth and regulatory reforms have created a favourable environment for long-term investments in sectors such as healthcare, biotechnology, and digital health.

The cooperation builds on the Innovation and Technology Partnership Roadmap and aims to translate scientific collaboration into deployable healthcare solutions, especially for cost-sensitive and resource-constrained settings.

The leaders noted the extension of the Indo-German Science and Technology Centre, which has played a flagship role in promoting industry-academia collaboration in advanced manufacturing, medical technologies, sustainable production, and artificial intelligence for sustainability.

Both sides also welcomed progress towards establishing Indo-German Centres of Excellence on Innovation, with affordable healthcare identified as one of the focus areas.

A new bilateral cooperation on bioeconomy is expected to deliver outcomes in genomics, 3D bioprinting and biomanufacturing, areas that are increasingly relevant to personalised medicine, regenerative healthcare and next-generation medical devices.

Traditional medicine and integrative healthcare have also been included within the scope of collaboration. The leaders reaffirmed their commitment to evidence-based and people-centric traditional medicine practices and welcomed the memorandum of understanding between the All-India Institute of Ayurveda and Germany’s Charité University to promote scientific cooperation in this field.

Trade between the two countries has crossed $50 billion, and more than 2,000 German companies operate in India.

With 19 agreements signed across technology, defence, energy and education, medical technology and bioeconomy cooperation is now positioned as a core pillar of the evolving partnership, with implications for innovation, access to healthcare and resilient health systems in both countries and beyond.

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