Indian Business and Enterprise at Cambridge University, and Director of the
Centre for India and Global Business, will be presenting his inaugural
lectures in New Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai from March 10-13, 2009.
During his talk in New Delhi on March 10, Professor Prabhu will address senior policy-makers, diplomats and elected officials. He will identify the opportunities and challenges facing India in its quest to emerge as a global research and development hub. In Bangalore on March 11, Professor Prabhu will address Indian and multinational corporate leaders on how they should lead their firms during a recession by fostering a sustainable culture of innovation. Finally, Professor Prabhu will deliver two lectures in Mumbai on March 12-13, revisiting the theme of corporate innovation and exploring how India can speed up its innovation-led growth by strengthening academic-industry collaboration.
The Centre for India & Global Business will conduct research and collaborate with key partners in three areas: How and why the worldas largest multinationals are increasingly locating their global R&D; and innovation activities in India and other emerging countries; how Indian firms are going global and moving up the value chain; and how firms and other organisations are engaging with those who live on less than $1 a day, the abottom of the pyramida, through innovative products, services and business models.
Professor Prabhu will be joined on this tour by Professor Arnoud De Meyer, Director, Judge Business School and the newly appointed Executive Director of the Centre for India & Global Business, Navi Radjou, who was previously Vice President at Forrester Research, a US-based technology research and consulting firm, where he investigated how globalised innovation is driving new market structures.