Hosted by the UFV Esposito Family Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship.
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ABOUT THE TALK:
IIT Bombay has been striving hard on start-ups to boost innovation capabilities for increasing the competitiveness of clusters. It has climbed up quite well in research and executive education, as well as rankings such as QS (QS, 2020). For instance, IITB has been in the Top5 in QS rankings for many years and is enhancing its start-up ecosystem to climb up at the Asia level. IITB has a leading technology-business incubator and has several start-ups (being incubated or graduated or by alumni) that are doing well, particularly in the digital platform economy such as Ola (ride-sharing), CareNX (innovations in healthcare), ideaForge (Drones, Aviation, and Aerospace) and WKA (knowledge automation).
With several innovation-based start-up clusters, including in British Columbia, Canada is poised to lead in competitiveness, including in emerging industries such as nanotech (e.g. Momaya, 2011; Maine et al., 2014) and related industries such as pharmaceuticals (e.g. Haldar et al., 2016). There may be potential for cooperation opportunities at multiple levels. Building on rich experiences of partnerships with Japan over the years, we explore potential, taking the case of select emerging industries such as digital platforms, biopharmaceuticals, and clean technology to identify specific experts, centres, and start-ups. This exercise can strengthen linkages and exchanges by identifying areas for collaborative research projects.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Dr. Kirankumar S. Momaya (IIT Bombay, India) has been working on practices related to competitiveness since the start of his PhD in the early 1990s. He has guided several PhDs on competitiveness or related topics of management of technology or innovation (MoT) and Strategy. He is currently a professor of competitiveness at the Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. He has helped build several partnerships with Japan and has been a visiting professor at leading universities in Japan. He is a rare academic from India to have several firsts in Japan and to have published in each of the Top 5 journals of management in India and leading Competitiveness / related Journals of Europe / North America / Asia including IIMB Management Review, Vikalpa, JFSM, JSSPRM. He has authored/edited (individually/jointly) two books and published more than 60 papers in refereed national and international journals, and many articles for practitioners.
03/10/2021 – 03/10/2021
07:30 pm – 08:30 pm
Zoom (Register for link)
For more information, contact Danielle Mijo-Burch at danielle.mijoburch@ufv.ca
03/10/2021