Professor Anil K Gupta (Speaker)
Prof. Anil K. Gupta, an IIM Ahmedabad faculty, holds the Executive Vice Chairman of National Innovation Foundation set-up by Department of Science & Technology, Government of India. He also established the Society for Research & Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies & Institutions (SRISTI) in 1993 and Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network (GIAN) in 1997, two NGOs to support the Honey Bee Network and to scale up and convert grassroots innovations into viable products respectively. He has also been profiled by India Today as one of the top-50 Change Entrepreneurs in the country.
He has been instrumental in expanding global, national and local space for grassroots inventors and innovators to ensure recognition, respect and reward for them; protection of their Intellectual Property Rights; blending excellence in formal and informal science; ethical issues in conservation and prospecting of biodiversity; linking innovations, investments and enterprise; creating Knowledge Network at different levels for augmenting grassroots green innovations and build a global value chain to get the creativity its due; support to Honey Bee Network including about 124,000 ideas, innovations and examples (not all unique) of traditional knowledge from various parts of the country and rest of the world on farm and non-farm sustainable technologies
His mission is to demonstrate the potential of knowledge rich economically poor people in taking developing societies out of the morass of mediocrity and lead these on to a path of sustainable progress.
Prof. Gupta helped establish NIF (National Innovation Foundation, India) with an initial corpus of Rs.20 crores with a view to help India become an innovative and creative society and a global leader in sustainable technologies by scouting and sustaining grassroots innovations. Union Finance Minister of India announced this fund in his Budget speech for 1999 in response to their work to develop a national register of innovations, help link informal and formal science, convert innovations into products through linkage with investment and enterprise, help set up incubators etc.
He also worked on a three year Pew Award of US $150,000 for Biodiversity Conservation and Environment granted by Pew Scholars program at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor to ten outstanding scholars around the world. This award had been used to strengthen Honey Bee network- a global network of activists, scholars, policy makers and farmers around the issue of indigenous technological and institutional innovations for sustainable natural resource management
Prof. Gupta has been lauded for his extraordinary work with various awards, the highlight being 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.
He has been instrumental in expanding global, national and local space for grassroots inventors and innovators to ensure recognition, respect and reward for them; protection of their Intellectual Property Rights; blending excellence in formal and informal science; ethical issues in conservation and prospecting of biodiversity; linking innovations, investments and enterprise; creating Knowledge Network at different levels for augmenting grassroots green innovations and build a global value chain to get the creativity its due; support to Honey Bee Network including about 124,000 ideas, innovations and examples (not all unique) of traditional knowledge from various parts of the country and rest of the world on farm and non-farm sustainable technologies
His mission is to demonstrate the potential of knowledge rich economically poor people in taking developing societies out of the morass of mediocrity and lead these on to a path of sustainable progress.
Prof. Gupta helped establish NIF (National Innovation Foundation, India) with an initial corpus of Rs.20 crores with a view to help India become an innovative and creative society and a global leader in sustainable technologies by scouting and sustaining grassroots innovations. Union Finance Minister of India announced this fund in his Budget speech for 1999 in response to their work to develop a national register of innovations, help link informal and formal science, convert innovations into products through linkage with investment and enterprise, help set up incubators etc.
He also worked on a three year Pew Award of US $150,000 for Biodiversity Conservation and Environment granted by Pew Scholars program at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor to ten outstanding scholars around the world. This award had been used to strengthen Honey Bee network- a global network of activists, scholars, policy makers and farmers around the issue of indigenous technological and institutional innovations for sustainable natural resource management
Prof. Gupta has been lauded for his extraordinary work with various awards, the highlight being 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.