Academic field: Understanding and Modelling a Knowledge transfer Mechanism for InnovationDr

Sudhanshu Rai was born in India on 7th May 1968. He has two Masters Degrees’, one in International Economics, Banking and Finance and the other in Economics. He received his PhD from The Copenhagen Business School, Department of Informatics. During his PhD Sudhanshu was a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics. Prior to his academic career Sudhanshu has worked in the IT industry as director of system design at trust4health a health insurance company from 1999 to 2002, prior to which he was employed by Tata Economic Consultancy Services in New Delhi as Senior Economist with responsibility for IT valuation and IT infrastructural investments from 1997 to 1999. Earlier he served the government of Sikkim, Department of Tourism, in India as their economic advisor and was responsible for IT diffusion and strategy across the state.

Sudhanshu works with New Institution theory, ICT R&D, IT, culture and innovation. He is currently engaged in research that explores virtual and networked teams from an institutional perspective. He is a member of the faculty at the Department of Informatics and is the project manager of a EU funded project on Mapping the ICT, Research and Development competency of India.