Innovation, Business Models and Entrepreneurship

Prof. Rajat Agrawal is Professor and Head of the Department, Management Studies, at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee. Prof Agrawal is winner of the Ram Kumar award for outstanding Teaching and Research, which is the most prestigious award given in the domain of teaching and research at IIT Roorkee. Prof. Agrawal has worked in various crucial role for building an IP and Entrepreneurship centric ecosystem at IIT Roorkee. Some of which include, Associate Dean of Innovation and Incubation, Coordinator for IPR Cell, Coordinator for DPIIT IPR Chair. He is also Joint Faculty at Department of Design, an associate Faculty at Centre of Excellence for Disaster Mitigation and Management, an associate Faculty for Centre for Transportation Systems at IIT Roorkee. Prof. Agrawal is member of various Expert committees/Think Tank formed by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India on issues related to IPR. Prof Rajat Agarwal has attended various international courses on IPR and allied areas, which include Training Course for IP Trainers by Japan patent Office at Tokyo, Danida Fellowship Centre (DFC) Scholarship Programme on Innovation and Commercialization of Intellectual Property Rights in Denmark.

Prof. Agrawal is a visiting fellow to Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark. His area of interest is innovation and IPR Production and Operations Management including Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing Strategy and World Class Manufacturing.

He has guided twenty-five Ph.D. thesis in these areas. Currently, ten students are working under him for Ph.D. thesis. He has more than 150 research papers in refereed journals and refereed conference proceedings. He has developed more than 20 case studies on various aspects of supply chain management, organizational development, natural resource management, social entrepreneurship, and value co-creation. He has developed more than 15 Programmes for All India Radio on various subjects of rural development and technical, management education.

He has completed 12 research and consultancy projects. He was also involved in some of the international projects funded by Danish Innovation Council and European Union. He has more than 400 hours of corporate training experience with organizations like BHEL, THDC India Ltd., Power Finance Corporation Ltd., Syndicate Bank, Everest Industries, and Rockman Industries etc. He is reviewer of various national/ international journals. He is a member of Academy of Management, USA; All India Management Association, New Delhi and ISOL, New Delhi. He has contributed chapters in seven different books published by IGNOU, Delhi, NIOS, Delhi, IGI Global, and Springer. He has co-authored a book titled “Masters Speak: Management Education in India” published by Bloomsbury India Publications.

He received Best Teacher Dainik Bhaskar National Education Leadership Awards-2013. He received Noel Deere Gold Medal for paper in management stream in 71^st and 72^nd annual convention of STAI, consecutively. One of his paper was considered one of the best articles of the Year 2014 by Business Standard. He was also awarded ISOL Research Award 2015 at 5^th International conference at Chicago USA. He was also awarded ICCR chair professorship at Indonesia.