Pixabay | Photo Credit: Pixabay Building collaboration between academia and industry would be the first step to building an R&D ecosystem in Aerospace and Defence in India Innovation is largely driven by R&D, with many interdisciplinary fields being connected to basic and applied sciences. According to the All India Survey of Higher Education by the Ministry of Human Resources Development, only 2.5% of colleges in the country have Ph.D. programmes, and the majority opt for basic sciences followed by Engineering and Technology. There is vast potential to build careers in R&D. Let us now take a look at R&D in Aerospace.