Professor Anil K. Gupta

Lectures delivered and presentations made at various national and international conferences :

• Leveraging Innovations for Inclusive Governance, Presented at the 5th Civil Services Day organized by Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievance, Pensions and Parliamentary Affairs on 21st April 2010 at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi
• Pedagogical innovations for triggering social and economic entrepreneurship among youth, Foundation Day lecture at NITIE, Mumbai, March 25, 2009
• Managing knowledge, creating networks and triggering innovations for sustainable agriculture, National Seminar on Agriculture Extension, 27-28 Feb 2009, Ministry of Agriculture, New Delhi, IIMA W.P. NO. 2009-03-05
• Rethinking the Priorities for Indian Agricultural Research, Institutions and Policy: Learning from the Grassroots, Dr. B.P.Pal Memorial Lecture delivered at Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi on 24th May 2008, IIMA W.P. NO. 2009-03-04
• Linking Vertical and Horizontal Markets for Innovations at Grassroots: Sustainability Imperative, Keynote lecture delivered at Future of Logistics Conference, Hanover, Germany, 26th May 2008, IIMA W.P. NO. 2009-03-02
• Grassroots to Global (G2G): Role of Grassroots Innovations in redefining national innovation systems for inclusive development, lecture delivered at MIT Sloan School of Management, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA on February 25, 2008
• G2G - Grassroots to Global: The Knowledge Rights of Creative Communities, keynote lecture delivered at Globalization and Justice Conference, Seattle University, USA, February 21, 2008
• What can we learn from green grassroots innovators: Blending reductionist and holistic perspectives for sustainability science, Lecture to be delivered at Centre for International Development, Harvard’s Sustainability Science Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA on February 25, 2008
• (With Arul George) Building capacity at community level for protecting the intellectual property rights in genetic resources and associated knowledge systems and cultural expressions, presented in the roundtable on Building Community Capacity: A Roundtable on Practical Initiatives on Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions, Traditional Knowledge and Genetic Resources, organised by WIPO, Geneva, 10-12 December 2007, Geneva
• Grassroots to Global: Online Incubation of Grassroots Innovations, keynote lecture delivered at 10th MIT $100K Global Startup Workshop in Trondheim, Norway on 28th March 2007
• Innovations, institutions and involvement: Socio ecological crisis and insurgency in marginal environments, presented at the seminar on Civil Society and Democratic Space in South Asia, in Delhi on 12th January 2006
• Transforming Indian villages through innovations, knowledge network and entrepreneurship: Dealing with the bottom of the pyramid or tip of the iceberg, Lecture delivered at the Convention on Transforming Villages into Vibrant and Prosperous Entities-Innovative Strategies, organized by the Lucknow Management Association, Lucknow, on 24th October 2005.
• Innovations for making small enterprises competitive: Overtaking China, lecture delivered at the Ludhiana Management Association, organised by Department of Business Management, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, on 19th October 2005
• Dialogue on Design, Diversity and Development: Learning from Grassroots Innovators, keynote presentation made at Philips Design Symposium in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, on 20th September 2005
• Indigenous knowledge and innovations for managing resources, institutions and technologies sustainably: A case of agriculture, medicinal plants and biotechnology. Paper contributed for presentation at the Seminar on IBSA Seminar on Economic Development and Social Equity, August 2-4, 2005 at Rio, Brazil
• Rewarding Conservation of Biological and Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and Contemporary Grassroots Creativity, Published as WIPO-UNEP study on the role of intellectual property rights in the sharing of benefits arising from the use of biological resources and associated traditional knowledge, 2004
• Technological innovations for revitalising small scale and tiny sector: Need for a bold initiative - A note submitted to Finance Minister for budget 2003-04
• Value chain augmentation for grassroots innovations making India innovative, note submitted to Finance Minister at the pre budget consultation meeting, January 9, 2002
• Rethinking priorities for Science and Technology policy for augmenting grassroots innovations: A pre-budget submission to the Finance Minister, 2001
• Rewarding Traditional Knowledge and Contemporary Grassroots Creativity: The Role of Intellectual Property Protection, paper presented at a seminar at Kennedy School, Harvard University, Boston, May 2000
• Transforming Developmental Options for Knowledge-rich, Economically-poor people: From Grassroots Innovations to Global Space, paper presented at the UNESCO-ACEID Conference in Bangkok during December 12-15, 2000
• Financing tiny and small sector technological innovations: A pre-budget submission to the Finance Minster, 2000
• Have papers in International journals like International Review of Administrative Sciences, International Journal of Sustainable Development, Agri. Systems, Capitalism, Nature and Socialism, International Studies in Management and Organisation, Indian Jr. of Social Studies, Indian Jr. of Public Administration, Vikalpa, Studies in History, Biotech¬nology Law Report (USA), Eubios (Japan), Development, Cultural Survival Quarterly, Biotechnology and Law Monitor, Diversity, etc., on Action Research, Social Effects of Rural Projects, Designing Resource Delivery Systems, Right To Resource, Household Economy in Dry regions, Biodiversity Conservation, Ethics of resource extraction, farmers' Innovations, Intellectual property rights of people etc.