Department of Management, Society and Communication

Sudhanshu Rai is currently an Associate Professor of innovation in emerging economies, Copenhagen Business School. He is working on two aligned but separate projects, the Nature of Indian innovation which seeks to understand innovation in India from a non-industrial production systems perspective. In this project he explores how traditional industries have continued to innovate to survive in the world, how they have adopted new technology and managed to improve and enhance their traditional skill base. Non-Industrial production systems are thriving and well according to Sudhanshu. His second research project is the Mind science in society for innovation, which seeks to understand the role of meditation and contemplation on innovation, a neurological perspective. He takes a neuro phenomenological approach. Sudhanshu aims to explore the link between meditative and contemplative techniques and innovative intent, for more information on these projects go to his blog, http://sudhanshusprojects.com. He also organizes the Mind, Meditation and Innovation conference to disseminate the research findings from this field. In the past his research projects were the co-creation of Innovation project, co-creation of social entrepreneurship project, www.cocreatech.dk. He is an entrepreneur in his own right and the founder of iVATION Consulting. In the past he has worked with Institutional logics, Indian reasoning, and Knowledge management. He has several research publications and contributions to chapters in several books.

He teaches several Masters Courses. He has taught, Knowledge Management, IT as a resource, ICT in developing countries, Project management, Co-creating experience based innovation, etc. Currently he is responsible for three Master level courses, a) Innovation in flux, an emerging economy perspective on innovation. b) Shoes for the cobblers children, how to build business models, c) Landscape of the visionary, using contemplative techniques for innovative thinking.

Sudhanshu sits on several academic boards. His appointment to the board of the Lauria University for applied science, Finland; has acknowledged his international stature in the fields of co-creation of innovation. He has a place on the academic advisory board of the National Institute of Medium and small scale industry, a Government of India institution where his responsibility is to monitor and advice on academic quality. He is also on the advisory board of GoodWings a start up in Denmark.

Sudhanshu has led several large EU funded projects, for instance he coordinated the Euro-India project which mapped India’s innovative potential and collaborative capacity. This project provided a robust and basic understanding of where Indian firms stand on technology innovation and the role of consultants during the innovative process. Today his work is used as a base line for Indian related policy making at a micro level. He also coordinated the EU-Asia project that sought to raise the livelihood of entrepreneurs in China, Vietnam, and Philippians