Email : rajiv@iimshillong.ac.in
Office Ph.: +91 364 2308000
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Adjunct Associate Professor - Ph.D., Aalborg University, Denmark.
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Email : rajiv@iimshillong.ac.in
Office Ph.: +91 364 2308000
2010-2011 MBA (Sustainability), Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University, Denmark
2004-2007 Ph.D. (Biotechnology), Dept. of Biotechnology, Aalborg University, Denmark.
2002-2004 Research Associate, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg, Germany
1999-2001 M.Sc. (Master of Science) Biotechnology, M.K. University, Madurai, India
Current
Dec 2015 – present: Head of Sci-tech Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Aarhus University Faculty of Natural Sciences and The Faculty of Technical Sciences with two new Deans for each faculty. My main task is to ensure that Entrepreneurship is integrated into the scientific curriculum. Additional roles and responsibilities include:
• Gamification of Entrepreneurship Education & Gamified learning
• High-performance-team formation (primarily for Entrepreneurship) using game-based stealth assessments
• Act as an Entrepreneurship advisor to different initiatives at the various departments but also as a mentor to startup teams. Coach faculty members in areas such as Design Thinking.
• Play-based learning within the aegis of AU’s Citizen-Science Platform – “ScienceAtHome”
Feb 2023 – present: Visiting Faculty at the IESEG school of Management, Paris where I will be running Entrepreneurship, communication & Leadership training.
May 2011- present: Co-founder of Biosymfonix (CVR: 33006039) and its educational board-game development arm – Biosymfonix EduGames (Founded May 2017 where I have the innovation advisory role as Chief Innovation Jedi-master). Current products include the award-winning game “ESHIP: Navigating Uncertainty” (for HigherEd institutions); “OI-AreYouReady” (Open Innovation Readiness Challenge Game for the Pharmaceutical Industry). The ESHIP game is currently in use by over 56 institutions across 27 different countries globally.
Sep 2009 – present: Board of Directors member at Bansara Eye Care Centre, Shillong, India – I am involved in advising in the scientific and business activities of the centre and its non-profit arm.
Past
Apr 2014 – Nov 2015: Head of Open Innovation at Aarhus University Centre for Entrepreneurship &
Innovation reporting directly to the Director of the Centre (35 member strong center). Accomplishment-based Promotion.
• Gamified Entrepreneurship Education
• Fund-raising for national and EU level grants. Co-ordinated H2020 projects
• Developed Centre Strategy – as an internal management board member
• Advisory role at the University Student Incubator
Jan 2013 – Mar 2014: Consultant & Senior Scientist with teaching & research responsibilities at Aarhus University Centre for Entrepreneurship & Innovation. Research areas include Expatriate Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship & Entrepreneurship Education.
July 2012 – Dec 2012: Associate researcher at Department of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University. Researched the dynamics that help and maintain the formation of Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs) for driving interdisciplinary collaboration between academia and industry. Joint applicant for EU-COST action plan on “Dynamics of Virtual Work”.
May 2011-Sep 2011: Management Consultant intern at Danish Technological Institute – Technology Transfer Division (Aarhus) – Position involved researching companies’ ability to implement Cradle-to-Cradle business models. The data generated was also part of the MBA thesis.
Aug 2007 – Aug 2009: Post-doctoral researcher at the interdisciplinary nanoscience center – iNANO at Aarhus University. I coordinated an international cross-disciplinary project on corneal dystrophy and the research was of high quality and relevance resulting in high impact publications and awards
1. Pedersen, M. K., Díaz, C. M. C., Wang, Q. J., Alba-Marrugo, M. A., Amidi, A., Basaiawmoit, R. V., Bergenholtz, C., Christiansen, M. H., Gajdacz, M., Hertwig, R., Ishkhanyan, B., Klyver, K., Ladegaard, N., Mathiasen, K., Parsons, C., Rafner, J., Villadsen, A. R., Wallentin, M., Zana, B., & Sherson, J. F. (2023). Measuring Cognitive Abilities in the Wild: Validating a Population-Scale Game-Based Cognitive Assessment. Cognitive Science, 47(6), [e13308].
2. Basaiawmoit, R.V., Deva, T., Mijal, M. (2022) A Leap-Of-Faith in Intellectual Property in EntEd curriculum with a “LeapInTime” Serious Game triggers emergence of Contextualization Bias. Peer-Reviewed conference paper presented at the ECSB-Entrepreneurship Education (3E) Conference in Dijon, France on 11th-13th May 2022.
3. Díaz, C., Ponti, M., Haikka, P., Basaiawmoit, R.V., Sherson, J (2020) More than data gatherers: exploring player experience in a citizen science game. Quality and User Experience 5, (1);
4. C. Thrane and R.V. Basaiawmoit (2019) Triggering identity prototyping in entrepreneurship education through game-based learning. Paper nominated as Best Paper at the ECSB-Entrepreneurship Education (3E) Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden on 8th-10th May 2019.
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I am regularly invited as a public speaker & keynote speaker at many events around the world and some of my most exciting ones have been the 2015 TEDx talk in Aarhus, Denmark and 2016 CSWglobal conference in London, UK. My TEDx lecture speaks on the power of purpose and how we should be purpose-driven in this hyper-connected world. One of my favorite talks was on the Medici Effect – i.e. the effect of patrons and infrastructure support to enable innovators such as Leonardo Da Vinci and how that is still relevant today is also one of my favorite talks. Some of my talks can be accessed publicly on YouTube – I have collated a few of them here on this YouTube playlist: http://tinyurl.com/zww7rt2
Some recent/relevant speaking highlights include:
• Keynote & Panelist at the Global Entrepreneurship Education Summit, Porto, PT (26 Jul 23)
• Panelist & Jury member at the Innovation for Health Conference, Rotterdam, NL (6 Apr 23)
• Roundtable discussion at the University Industry Interaction Network conference, Budapest (May23)
• Keynote & Panelist at International Entrepreneurship Education Summit, Stuttgart, DE (25 Nov 22)
• Chair & Jury member at the European Conference for Game Based Learning, Lisbon, PT (Oct 22)
• Panelist at the European Science Open Forum (Jul 2022)
Hackathons, workshops and mentorships (a small example):
“Granted: A Research Grant game” workshop with faculty (PDW to be run at the European Conference for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, 20 September 23)
PDW: “Designing for Uncertainty: An Entrepreneurship course design experience” – Workshop to be run with EntEd Educators from Europe, Gdansk, PL 15-17 Nov 23
Entrepreneurship in Food Systems (EIFS) Summer school, July 7-17, Turin, IT
Clean Water Hackathon, The Kitchen Incubator, 23 May 23, AU, Aarhus, DK
PhD Summer school in Data Science & AI, The Kitchen Incubator, 1-2 Jun 23, AU, Aarhus, DK
•Winner of the “Best Educational Game” in the non-digital game category (and 2nd place overall) at the 4th International Educational Games Competition held under the aegis of the European Conference on Game-Ba sed Learning 2016 for the Entrepreneurship game “ESHIP: Navigating Uncertainty”. The game also won a Silver Medal at the Serious Game Awards 2018
•2 nd Prize at the ECIE2016 International Teaching Innovation and Excellence Awards towards the teaching model – “Gamification of Entrepreneurship Education Using Design Thinking”
• Winner at the 2012 Financial Times MBA Challenge (May – Oct. 2012). As team captain, I led a team of fellow MBAs to overcome the challenge of “Eye-glasses uptake in children from developing countries to reduce prevalence of avoidable blindness”. The winning idea used gamification, sustainable bottom-of-the-pyramid business models and co-creation as combined intervention strategies
• Runners-up at the US$ 1 Million Hult Global Business Case Challenge (now known as the Hult Prize) in the New York global finals (26th April 2012). Awarded by former US President Bill Clinton. Main judges also included Nobel laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus and Mr. Michael Treschow (Chairman, Unilever). Used sustainable business models & gamification to empower poor children globally with education. 6 finalists (winner of every regional round in Dubai, Shanghai, Boston, London, San Francisco and 1 online winner) were flown in to New York for the finals.
• Winner at the CGI-sponsored Hult Global Business Case Challenge at the Dubai regional finals (25th Feb. 2012). Dubai finalists selected from over 4000 teams. Judges included Tariq Al Gurg, CEO, Dubai Cares; Jennifer Hardie, CEO Pinnacle HR; Rob Broedelet, Country Exec., ABN-AMRO
• Winner at Novo-Nordisk Innovation in Action – business case competition, Aarhus 26th Oct 2011.
• Semi-Finalist at the World Negotiation Challenge held in Leipzig, Germany on March 2011. Our team, representing Aarhus School of Business, competed with 12 other global teams.
• Winner of Best Cross-disciplinary team award at Aarhus Innovation Day Challenge 2010.
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An M.Psy. and D.Phil. (Psychology) from the Center for Advanced Study in Psychology, University of Allahabad. Prior to joining the Institute he had made a stint in the Consulting while working on a CSR assignment of the HONDA Cars, previously worked at the G.B.Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad as a Lecturer and the Center for Advanced Study in Psychology, University of Allahabad. Prof Dwivedi received the DAAD Research Fellow in Center for Modern India Studies, Faculty of Management, Universität zu Köln, Germany
Associate Professor, IIM Shillong
Ph.D., University of Allahabad
Shri Vivek Singh is a public policy and communications professional. He was serving as OSD (Officer on Special Duty) to the Union Finance & Corporate Affairs Minister. He has been a part of the FM’s team in the last 5 Union Budgets and also worked in the Raksha Mantri’s office from November 2018 to May 2019. He was a corporate banker before joining the government.
He is an alumnus of Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), ICAI and IIM Shillong. He is a regular contributor of articles and opinion pieces in leading business dailies where he writes on macro-economy and policy-related topics. While at IIM-Shillong, he was a part of the Student Council and won the Gold Medal for being the Best All-rounder and making the ‘Most Positive Contribution to Campus Life’.
Ex-OSD, The Union Finance Minister,
Alumnus, IIM Shillong
Mousumi Bhattacharya is an Associate professor in finance whose research interest spans the field of FINTECH and Financial Services, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Restructurings, Corporate Finance, Business Valuation, Corporate Governance, Earnings Management, Banking and Financial Econometrics. She has done her post graduate degree in business finance, M.Phil. and PhD from University of Calcutta and she was a rank holder at both M.Phil. and post-graduation level. She also has a diploma in business finance from ICFAI University. She has more than 50 scholarly research publications in peer reviewed journals. She is currently the Editor in Chief of IIMS Journal of Management Science the journal of the Indian Institute of Management Shillong that publishes research contributions in all areas of management and its allied discipline.
Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Calcutta
Rohit Joshi is currently working as a Professor in the Operations Management and Quantitative Techniques area at IIM Shillong. He is a Fulbright fellow. He has done his Postdoctoral Research work at UCLA, the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. He has obtained his Ph.D from Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He has received Master in Technology from Malviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, in Industrial Engineering and his bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is a Gold Medalist and the University topper in his M.Tech and B.Tech respectively. His areas of interest in consulting and teaching assignments include Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Six Sigma and Lean Thinking, Business Statistics, Project Management, Value-engineering, Design Thinking and Creative Problem Solving.
Professor, Ph.D, IIT Delhi,Postdoc – UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
Maneesh Jaikrishna is currently serving as Regional Vice President for Middle East, APAC and Africa at Embross. Prior to this, he had had an illustrious 21 years career at SITA as the Vice President & General Manager for Indian Subcontinent, Dubai, Eastern & Southern Africa. He brings with him an extensive leadership experience in building organizations from ground up, business transformation and leading multi-functional teams in medium sized and large organizations across 30+ countries across ME, APAC, Indian Subcontinent & Africa while growing profitable businesses in the global Travel & Transport Industry. He has been instrumental in enabling win-win business outcomes through application of advance technology led IT systems and services to improve the travel experience, safety, security and operational efficiency for his airport, airline, government and other industry stakeholders.
Recipient of several awards, he had been nominated to SITA Board for 16 years and currently is an ExCo member in Embross. He has authored several articles, white papers as the media spokesperson which have been covered extensively in leading national and international publications. He had also been nominated to the Sectoral Innovation Council of the Ministry of Civil Aviation and as a member in the FICCI Civil Aviation Committee.
He holds a first class first B.E. (Hons.) degree in Electronics & Telecommunications of Mumbai University, and also an Executive Master of Business Administration degree from IMD Business School, Switzerland.
Regional Vice President for Middle East,
APAC and Africa at Embross
Dr. D P Goyal, Director, IIM Shillong, is an internationally acclaimed academician and researcher. He carries over thirty-five years of rich experience in teaching, research and various leadership roles in few of India’s finest institutions including MDI Gurgaon, IMT Ghaziabad and Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala. He is also a visiting Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. Prof Goyal has already supervised fifteen PhD research scholars; published over 60 research papers and has been principal investigator of several sponsored research projects. He has more than a dozen books to his credit which includes three highly popular text books in Information Systems area. He has also been the editor of a couple of research journals and is on the Editorial Board of several national and international journals.
Prof Goyal has been on the expert/assessment/selection committees of various National bodies and is also on the Board of Governor/Governing Council; Academic Advisory Board; Academic Council; Board of Studies of a large number of business schools and universities.
Director,
Indian Institute of Management Shillong
Shri. Ashutosh Dikshit has over 16 years of professional experience in the roles of Presales, Innovation Consulting, Marketing and Program Management. During his career, he has worked across organizations such as Deloitte, IBM, Wipro Technologies, Birlasoft and University College London. In his current role, Ashutosh leads the CxO and Executive Briefing Program for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is based in London. He is an alumnus of IIM Shillong (PGP 2008-10) and is one of the winners of the prestigious Global Peter Drucker Challenge (2015).
CxO Advocacy and Executive Marketing - Senior Manager EMEA,
Amazon Web Services & Alumnus, IIMS
Dr. Paula Sengupta is an artist, academic and curator resident in Kolkata. She graduated in Painting from the College of Art, New Delhi, followed by an MFA and PhD in Printmaking from Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan. She is currently Professor at the Department of Printmaking at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata.
She is author of The Printed Picture: Four Centuries of Indian Printmaking published by DAG, New Delhi and Foreign & Indigenous Influences in Indian Printmaking with LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrucken, Germany.
Her curatorial projects include a soul (un)gendered: Anupam Sud – A Retrospective for DAG MODERN & KNMA, Delhi in 2019-20; Ghare Baire at the Old Currency Building, Kolkata for DAG MODERN and the Archaeological Survey of India in 2019; Popular Prints and the Freedom Struggle at the Drishyakala Museum, Red Fort, Delhi for DAG MODERN and the Archaeological Survey of India in 2019; the landmark exhibition Trajectories: 19th-21st Century Printmaking from India and Pakistan for the Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE in 2014; and six editions of The Printed Picture: Four Centuries of Indian Printmaking for DAG MODERN, India from 2012-18.
Professor,
Ravindra Bharati University
Shri Atul Chandrakant Kulkarni is an Independent Management and Strategy Consultant in Infrastructure domain with special focus on Maritime Industry.
He has been advising various domestic and international clients on Feasibility Study, Project Master Plan, Business Plan, Operations and Strategy. He serves as Director on the boards of Eurasia Special Technologies Pvt Ltd. (Defense Equipment), Varti Agro Pvt Ltd. (Exports of Fresh Fruits), 3.Yuva Vikas Society (Skill Development), etc. He is also associated in the advisory committees and governing councils/boards of SNDT University, Mumbai, Adi Sankara Group of Institutions, Kerala, National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai, among others.
He had earlier been associated in various roles including ‘C Level’ position with Chowgule Ports & Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd., V R Marine Services Pte Ltd, Singapore, Indian Ports Association, Gas Authority of India Limited, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Pvt. Ltd, Ministry of Shipping, GoI, Camlin Ltd. and many others over his 3-decade professional career.
He is also Chairman of a Public Charitable Trust SEIL (Students’ Experience in Inter-state Living) focusing on National Integration.
Management Consultant,
Director Eurasia Special Technologies Ltd
Shri Shishir Bajoria is a well-known Industrialist and the head of S K Bajoria Group – manufacturing ceramics for the steel industry in India, UK, USA, Germany, China. His businesses also include insurance services involving health and travel insurance administration, claim settlement, insurance and re-insurance broking; as well as an Art Gallery.
He has been the President of the Indian Chamber of Commerce- Kolkata, Honorary Vice Counsel for Denmark in Eastern India and has also been a Director of the State Industrial Development Corporations of Orissa (IPICOL) and West Bengal (WBIDC). He has been Knighted by the Governments of Denmark in 1998 and Italy in 2006.
Chairman Board of Governors, IIM-S
Head of S K Bajoria Group