CAREER PROGRESSION AND SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS - INDIA

Associate Professor (Strategy, Innovation & Entrepreneurship) International Management Institute, New Delhi (IMI-Delhi) June 2011 - Current
Research Project
Principal Investigator - Innovations in large Indian firms – AICTE funded 3 year Project (sanctioned on 14th March 2013)
Research Collaborations
- Syndicate Bank Entrepreneurship & Training Center (SBERTC) at IIT-Kanpur
  - Research Project – Designing & Developing Business Simulation Game (SIG)
- o SIDBI Innovation & Incubation Center (SIIC) at IIT-Kanpur
  - Advisor to ALL past and present companies incubated by SIIC
Publications: Books, Conference papers presented & Documentary
- 1. “Promoting Innovation in a Cluster: A Guidebook for Promoting Innovation in MSME Clusters”, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1st edition (April 2, 2013); ISBN-10: 1482710684; ISBN-13: 978-1482710687
- 2. Audio-Visual Documentary - “Promoting Innovation in Clusters: Pictures of Change”, Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, March 2013
- 3. Conference papers presented:
  - 1 paper - “Visioning the Future of Higher Education” at the 2nd National Conference Excellence in Higher Education – IIT-Delhi 28-30 June, 2012
  - 3 papers at 3rd Annual Global Conference for Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation (AGCETI 2012) – IIT-Kanpur 7-9 December 2012 [co-authored with Prof. Abhishek Nirjar]
    - 1. Elements of an Ideas Factory
    - 2. ‘Learning’ to Innovate
    - 3. Spilling Innovations into the Eco-system
Other Research related activities
- 1. Conference Chair (with Prof. B.V. Phani – IIT-Kanpur) 3rd Annual Global Conference on Entrepreneurship & Technology Innovation – 7th to 9th December 2012 venue IIT-Kanpur organized by IIT-Kanpur, IMI, Resslner Polytechnic USA & NEN
- 2. Chair - Panel Discussion – AGCETI 2012- IIT-Kanpur 8th December 2012 – “Executing on Opportunities a Global Perspective”
- 3. Panel Discussion – AGCETI 2012 –IIT-Kanpur 7th December 2012 – Innovations @ BHEL
- 4. International Advisory Committee AGCETI
- 5. Editorial Committee for AGCETI 2012
- 6. Faculty advisor and mentor IMI E-Cell
Teaching:
- 1. Strategic Management (Exec-PGDM) - core
- 2. Strategic Innovation (Exec-PGDM) - elective
- 3. Business Modeling (Exec-PGDM) - elective
- 4. Entrepreneurship / New Venture Creation (PGDM) - elective
- 5. Business Strategy & Competitive Advantage (PGDM) - core
- 6. Corporate Strategy (PGDM) - core
- 7. Advance course on Strategy (FPM) – core
- 8. Basic course on Strategy (FPM) – core
- 9. Strategic Alliances (FPM) – elective
Projects supervision (Exec-PGDM / PT-PGDM):
- 1. Over 20 (10 currently) final projects on Strategy and Business Modeling of Exec-PGDM from PSU, PSB and private sector including: BHEL, HAL, NTPC, IOB, ONGC, Maruti, CMC
Outreach:
- 1. TiE (U.P) – The Young Entrepreneurs Program (TYE) developing entrepreneurial capability at the K-12 level – teach basics of entrepreneurship to school children from Kanpur at IIT-Kanpur (2012 – ongoing)
- 2. Advisor: Vustr; Brandwidth Communications Pvt. Ltd.; DS Techworks Solutions Pvt.Ltd. (2012 – ongoing)
Training:
- 1. Open MDP – Managing Creativity & Innovation for Growth Program director with Prof. Abhishek Nirjar
- 2. Multiple sessions for MDPs on Innovation for Competitive Edge Both Independent and jointly with Prof. Abhishek Nirjar for Senior Executives [included organizations like BHEL, NTPC, IOCL, IFFCO, EIL, SJVM, Dena Bank, RBI and other Public Sector Banks]
Associate Professor (Innovation & Entrepreneurship) GD Goenka World Institute, Lancaster University
July 2010 – May 2011
Re-designed PGDBM specialization Family Business, Entrepreneurship & Innovation (includes 6 new modules)
Key achievements:
- 87 students certified by SIIC at IIT – Kanpur and RPI (USA) for Entrepreneurial Decision making using the simulation Strategic Innovation Game
Associate Director (Education) January 2009 – May 2010
NEN, Wadhwani Foundation
Responsible for entrepreneurship capacity building for 500+ member institutes (Led designing, sourcing and recruiting for Faculty Development, Teaching Materials & E-leaders Programs)
Designed developed and led implementation of activity based impact assessment across 500+ member institutes
Key achievements:
- 1000+ faculty and 1300+ e-leaders trained from over 400+ higher education institutes across the country (1 year)
- Summit for Designing NEN Phase 2 – October 2009: Knowledge Matrix for Developing Entrepreneurship Programs on campuses across the country
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE , LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS , U.K. OCT. 2000 – AUG. 2008
Researcher at Information Systems & Innovation Group, Department of Management
Pioneering Courses Developed for Department of Management
- Post-graduate (MSc) (Module Designer and Lecturer)
  - Business Innovation: A Techno-Legal Perspective [IS486b]
- Executive Program (Joint Course Designer and Lecturer)
  - Collaborative Innovation: Managing Networks of Human Capital
  - Adaptive “Business Organisms”: Managing Information Flow
TEACHING EXPERIENCE AT L S E (OCT. 2000 – MAR. 2008)
Information Systems & Innovation Group – Post-graduate [core & elective]

1. Information Systems Management [IS472]
2. Management & Economics of e-business [IS477/485]
3. Business Innovation: A techno-legal perspective[IS486b]
4. Designing Information Services [IS414/480]
5. Innovating Systems Development [IS471]
6. Information Technology: Issues & Skills[IS490]
Undergraduate elective
7. Information Technology & Society[IS143]

Summer School Program
8. E-Business in the Digital Age[MG150]

Singapore Institute of Management (SIM), Singapore (University of London- External Program)
9. Software Engineering
SUPERVISION OF MASTERS DISSERTATIONS AT LSE FROM MAY 2004 TO AUGUST 2008
Supervised 25 Masters Thesis / Projects in the areas of Innovation and Entrepreneurship: for students in the Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management, London School of Economics.
ADVISORY - GOVERNMENT AND NON-PROFIT ORGANISATION
SIDBI Innovation & Incubation Center (SIIC) at IIT-KanpurJuly 2011 - ongoing
MSME Foundation (India) Promoting Innovation in ClustersJuly 2010 – March 2013
Creative Commons (England & Wales) October 2006 – January 2009
Emerging Business Models
Industry Governance Institute (U.K) January 2006 – August 2008
Making the organisation ‘Transparent’ to itself: Mapping Structures with Activities,
for effective controls and hence governance.
Ministry of Culture (U.K.) July 2007 - October 2007
Financing Intellectual Property for the creative industries.
European Union (Twinning Project) September 2006 - December 2007
IPR Enforcement (in Lithuania).
SOME SPEAKING / MODERATION ENGAGEMENTS

IIT-Delhi Higher Education: Envisioning the futureJuly 2012
India at 100, India Habitat Centre, New DelhiApril 2011
Panellist: Growth drivers for SMEs: Cluster based approach to IT & ITeS MSMEs
Indian Institute of Technology – Kanpur, India(AGCETI-2010) January 2010
Session Chair Moderator: Entrepreneurship Education Panel’ “Vote of Thanks”
i-Commons Summit, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilJune 2006
“Emerging Business Models: Commercial Commons?”
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, IndiaDecember 2005
“IPR Management & Strategy”
Indian Law School, Pune, IndiaDecember 2005
“Innovation in Legal Services”
Asia Pacific Network, London, U.K.December 2005
“P2P Systems and New Commercial Architectures”

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