The Chinese way
Edward Tse argues in his book 'China's Disruptors' that innovation is happening in China at a pace that will influence the rest of the world sooner than later. Though he doesn’t mention Indian innovation, the comparison is inevitable
Rishikesha T Krishnan
Director, and Professor of Strategy
IIM Bangalore
Rishikesha Krishnan is an author, columnist and professor of management who focuses on strategy, innovation, and education. He is listed in the Thinkers50 India list of most influential management thinkers from India.
Prof. Krishnan’s book 8 Steps to Innovation: Going from Jugaad to Excellence (co-authored with Vinay Dabholkar) won the Best Book Award for 2013-14 from the Indian Society for Training & Development. His earlier book From Jugaad to Systematic Innovation: The Challenge for India proposed a blueprint for how India can enhance its innovation output.
From 1996-2013, Prof. Krishnan worked at IIM Bangalore, where he held the Jamuna Raghavan Chair in Entrepreneurship from 2007 to 2010. After serving a five year stint from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2018 as the Director of IIM Indore, he returned to IIM Bangalore and is currently Director of IIM Bangalore and Professor of Strategy there. He was educated at IIT Kanpur, Stanford University and IIM Ahmedabad.
My contributions
35 articles written
The importance of being Team Indus
If Team Indus succeeds in soft landing a spacecraft on the moon and wins the Lunar X Prize, it could set the stage for the company and India to be a big player in space engineering
The jump to BS-VI and what it means for innovation
The switch to the new emission norms will lead to interesting shifts in the automotive and energy industries
The state of cancer research and the future of innovation
In India, a focus on public health initiatives and re-engineering of proven drugs and treatments to reduce costs will achieve better results than looking for new cures
Sam Pitroda: The big dreamer
How Pitroda created a modern digital telecom network, backed by publicly-funded R&D
Tracking the progress of innovation in India
There is an urgent need to measure and track whether we are harnessing our creative potential to solve the important problems in education, health and agriculture
Transformers: The DNA of an innovative company
How do you design and run an innovative company? In his book Deepak Loomba details his experiences in setting up De Core Science and Technologies as a scalable and flexible firm
Idealistic, innovative entrepreneurship has the potential to change Indian higher education
How do you achieve holistic higher education? Sant Singaji Institute of Science and Management in rural Madhya Pradesh shows the way
Tech-savvy entrepreneurs, can you put India on the global innovation map?
Technological innovation is the key to supernormal profits. And India's failure to build high-level innovation capabilities is a failure of entrepreneurship and leadership
Revisiting innovation at the bottom of the pyramid
How do you come up with the disruptive differentiators that will serve the unique needs of the millions of Indians with limited purchasing power, and who are difficult to access? Co-create and build ground-up