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Description: The contemporary debate about the technological innovation process presents as challenge to generate through universities the scientific and inventive competence that allow the generation and transfer of knowledge generated to the productive sector. The dynamics of knowledge translation that results in new products or processes are complex, interinstitutional, systemic and non-linear (Gibbons et al., 1994). The translational research approach (Translational Research - TR) that emerged in the USA, in the 1990s, initially aimed to promote interdisciplinarity and accelerating the innovation process, transposing basic science to applied science, comprising the different stages of research , development and innovation (Clavier et al., 2012). The literature presents in a dispersed way, the theoretical and modeling approaches applied in translational research and environments that promote innovation in health (Clavier et al., 2012). Studies in the biopharmaceutical segment indicate that the process encompasses steps that go beyond basic and applied research and incorporates final steps, related to clinical research, regulation, technological transfer, production, evaluation and incorporation of technologies in the health and commercialization systems (DA et al., 2002; Gadelha et al., 2019). In this perspective, the qualified discussion of the aspects that drive translational research into medical devices becomes relevant to society, from the conception of new technologies, through the production of innovative goods and technologies to the process of incorporation into the health system. Therefore, it is proposed to carry out a scoping review in order to map the characteristics, factors and dimensions that integrate translational research in medical devices and the challenges for its implementation within the scope of Brazil's National Innovation System, in order to contribute to the solution of social and economic challenges in the contemporary.