Honours

•    Recipient of Bharat Asmita Acharya Shrestha National Award 2006 in recognition as the Best Management Teacher
•    Awarded distinguished the Indian National Science Academy- B.D.Tilak Memorial Lecture on science and society, 2005
•    Padma Shri National Award given by the Hon’ble President of India on the eve of Republic Day 26 January 2004 for distinguished achievements in the field of management education
•    Joint recipient of Science-in-Society Award instituted by The Indian Science Congress Association.  The award was given on 3rd January 2004 by the Hon’ble Minister of HRD at the 91st Session of the Indian Science Congress held in Chandigargh.
•    Adjudged as one of the fifty most influential people in the field of intellectual property rights around the world in 2003, Managing Intellectual Property (July-August 2003 , Issue 131).
•    Kasturbhai Lalbhai Chair in Entrepreneurship at IIMA
for a period of six  years from 2002 to 2008.
•    Fellow, The World Academy of Art and Science, California, 2001
•    Adjudged as one of the Star Personalities of Asia among the fifty leaders at the forefront of change by Business Week, New York.- Business Week, Asian Edition, July 2, 2001,  www.businessweekasia.com
•    BBC gave a wide coverage of activities being carried out by SRISTI and Honey Bee Network in support of grassroots innovators and telecast a film on our work viz., ‘Patently Obvious’ and broadcast the same in the month of June 2001, also a world Radio broadcast a program on grassroots innovators in June 2001 and again on March 23, 2002 in Business Today program. Latest on Honey Bee network was on Jan 11, 2006 in the same program ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4603108.stm).
•    Nominated for World Technology Award, (Environment) 2001 UK, and currently member of jury for these awards
•    Nominated for Stockholm Challenge Award, 2000
•    Received Asian Innovation Award Gold from Far Eastern Economic Review (Oct 26, 2000) for coordinating SRISTI and Honey Bee Network www.feer.com and served as judge for the same and Asian Young Inventors award in 2001,
•    The Economist, London reviewed the work of SRISTI and Honey Bee Network in a special article on Innovation and Intellectual Property, June 2001; invited by International Herald Tribune to write a special article on Riches of Poor (International Herald Tribune, October 11, 2001, sustsci.harvard.edu/ists/TWAS_0202/gupta_111001.pdf  )
•    Fellow, National Academy of Agricultural Sciences; Pew Conservation Scholar, 1993 96; Best Teacher Award in IIMA by students  (1982, 1985) and by Association of Indian Management Schools, (1996). Teach Shodh Yatra, a second year course, which is second most popular course at IIMA for last four years.