Plenary 2: Rishikesha T. Krishnan

Going beyond Jugaad: Can India Build a Systematic Innovation Capability?


Krishnan, Rishikesha  T

Rishikesha T. Krishnan
Professor of Corporate Strategy & Policy, IIM Bangalore
INDIA

 

Profile
Prof. Krishnan was a Visiting Fellow at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad during 2011–12. Earlier, in August 2010, he completed a 3-year term as Jamuna Raghavan Chair Professor of Entrepreneurship at IIMB. He was the Fall 2008 Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania. In November 2010, Prof. Krishnan received the Dewang Mehta Award for Best Teacher in Strategic Management.

Prof. Krishnan has served on a number of committees set up by the Government of India, Nasscom and CII related to innovation in India. He is on the board of Sundaram Asset Management Company Ltd., and is a trustee of the Foundation for Excellence India Trust (www.ffe.org), an organization committed to helping economically underprivileged and academically talented students complete their higher education through one of India’s largest scholarship programmes.