PROGRAMME FACULTY LIST

Prof. Rakesh Basant       Off: 6324865, Resi: 6325312 

Ph.D. in Economics (Guj) 

Current teaching and research interests include technology strategy & management, intellectual property rights, industrial organization, public policy and regulation. Recent work and publications have focused  on competition policy, regulation in the telecom sector, role of inter-firm linkages & public policy in building technological capabilities, strategic & policy aspects of intellectual property rights (especially in agriculture, pharmaceutical & information technology areas), industrial clusters, economics of strategy and the small scale sector in India. His earlier research focused on a variety of issues relating to agricultural technology, indigenous knowledge in agriculture, labour markets and rural non-farm sector and he has published extensively in these areas. Dr Basant is a recipient of the of the Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Economics and has spent two years at the Economic Growth Center, Yale University, U.S.A. as a Visiting Research Fellow. He has also worked as a consultant to the World Bank, Intermediate Technology Development Group, U.K. and the United Nations Institute of New Technologies, The Netherlands.

Prof. Anil K Gupta   Off: 6324927, Res: 6325315, M: 9825014437, email: anilg@iimahdernet.in

B.Sc (Agri), M Sc ( Genetics, HAU), Ph.D (Kurukshetra), Fellow (NAAS) 

Research interests include expansion of global as well as local space for grassroots innovators to ensure  recognition, respect and reward for them; blending excellence in formal and informal science; protection of intellectual property rights; ethical issues in conservation and prospecting of biodiversity; research management linking innovations, investments and enterprise; institution building in agricultural research systems; leadership for social change; organic farming; sociopolitical transformation towards a meritocratic society; creating knowledge network at different levels for augmenting grassroots green innovations, ecological economics, and development of multimedia multi language database on innovations to overcome the barriers of language, literacy, and localism. Editor of Honey Bee which promotes people to people networking and represents the voice of creative grassroots innovators.  Has published extensively in national and international journals and magazines.  Consultant to several national and international organizations. Established Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (SRISTI) and Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network (GIAN), two NGOs, respectively to support Honey Bee Network and to scale up and convert grassroots innovations into viable products.  Also helped set up the NIF (National Innovation Foundation) by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, to help India become an inventive and creative society and a global leader in sustainable technologies. Helping set up  First National Micro Venture Fund as per the announcement by Finance Minister in his budget speech, 2002. 

Received Pew Conservation Scholar Award, 1993, Star Of Asia award, Business Week, 2001; Asian Innovation Award Gold from Far Eastern Economic Review (Oct 26, 2000) for coordinating SRISTI  and Honey Bee Network; and nominated for World Technology Award, (Environment) 2001 UK.

Prof Akhileshwar Pathak     Off: 6324943, Res: 6325019

(Ph. D. Edinburgh)                                                                                           

Akhileshwar Pathak  has been researching on how law relates to practices. Parallel to publishing academic books and articles, he has been innovating on making law relevant for managers. He has conducted several programmes on food laws.

Prof Piyush Kumar Sinha    Off: 6324892, Res: 6325004

Ph.D. (SPU)                                                                                                                            

Specialization in the areas of services marketing and retailing. Has had extensive experience in academics and industry. Prior to joining IIMA, was Dean at Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA). Has also taught at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and XIM, Bhubaneswar. During the tenure in the corporate world, worked as a Marketing Manager for Gujarat Gas and Rasna. Has several publications as papers, cases, and  books.

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Dr Prabuddha Ganguli

Advisor: VISION-IPR, 103 B Senate,

Lokhandwala Township, Akurli Road,

Kandivli east, Mumbai-400 101

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Reader,Dept. of Biochemistry,

University of South Delhi Campus,

Benito Jaurez Road,

New Delhi-21

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Dr Sanjeev Saxena

CIO, 

National Innovation Foundation,

Bungalow No 1, Satellite Complex, 

Premchandnagar, Vastrapur, 

Ahmedabad.

Ph: 6732095

email: ssaxena@nifindia.org