Organised the first International Conference on Creativity and Innovation at Grassroots for sustainable natural resource management, January 11 14, 1997 at IIMA cosponsored by various national and international organisations such as World bank, commonwealth foundation and secretariat, NABARD, ICAR, CSIR, SRISTI, FAO/FTPP, etc., attended by grassroots innovators, policy makers, academics etc., from 40 countries. GIAN- a green venture promotion fund was set up as one of the follow up actions. Organised an International Conference On Criteria and Indicators of Sustainability for Rural Development sponsored by UNESCO in Feb., 1999; First National Workshop on Indian Incubator for Innovation Based Enterprises held at IIMA sponsored by Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Dec 1998; Coordinated two Inventors of India: Knowledge Network for Incubating Innovations into Enterprises workshop in 1998 and 2004 and the third one is scheduled during Sep 6-8, 2006; coordinated an executive training Workshop on Harnessing Intellectual Property for Strategic Competitive Advantage at IIMA during 2001-2005.