Executive Vice Chair, National Innovation Foundation, Founder, Honey Bee Network,

Coordinator, SRISTI;  Member, National Innovation Council,

Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedaba

Mission: Expansion of global as well as local space for grassroots innovators to ensure recognition, respect and reward for them; embed innovative ethic in educational policy and institutions,  

Institution building: Established Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (SRISTI, 1993, www.sristi.org) and Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network (GIAN, 1997,www.gian.org) to support the Honey Bee Network and to scale up and convert grassroots innovations into viable products respectively.  set up the National Innovation Foundation (NIF, 2000, www.nifindia.org ), now an Institute of Department of Science and Technology, Government of India to make India innovative and creative society and a global leader in sustainable technologies. NIF has mobilized more than 160,000 innovations and traditional knowledge practices from over 545 districts of India, the largest database of its kind anywhere. Recently through student volunteers and without much external support, established a portal of 104,000 tech student projects at  www.techpedia.in  to link the needs of informal sector and with the young technology students besides increasing Innovation Quotient of the country ( by preventing students do a repetitive project)

Honours/distinguished lectures: Received Padma Shri National Award from the Hon'ble President of India, 2004 for distinguished achievements in the field of management education; joint recipient of Science-in-Society Award instituted by The Indian Science Congress Association, January 2004; adjudged as one of the fifty most influential people in the field of intellectual property rights around the world in 2003, Managing Intellectual Property, 2003, Star of Asia Award, Business Week, 2001; Asian Innovation Award Gold, Far Eastern Economic Review (Oct. 26, 2000) for coordinating SRISTI and Honey Bee Network; and Pew Conservation Scholar Award, 1993-96, USA.