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Improving global

communities through the


power of innovative thinking
Contents Foreword

01 Foreword I am pleased to report that the Gandhi


02 Gandhi Centre for
Inclusive Innovation
Centre continues to forge ahead with
04 Education world-class research focusing on the
06 Industry nature of the innovation landscape, the
08 Empowering Rural Communities
role of energy in the socio-economic
12 Research
14 Impact
Nelson Phillips development of emerging economies, the
Acting Dean
16 Our vision 201520 Imperial College integration of low-cost innovation into core
Business School
markets, and the effect of limited resources
on organisational growth.
Let me give you a brief flavour of our key achievements: We have been
building on existing partnerships and exploring opportunities for new
ones, including a new Centre for Service Excellence in collaboration
with the BML Munjal University (BMU) and a programme of activities
with the Head Held High Foundation (HHHF) with whom we recently
signed a Memorandum of Understanding.

As such, the Gandhi Centre and HHHF ran the first Ideas to Impact
Challenge in May 2017, where student teams competed to win seed
funding and continuous mentorship to help them develop their
solutions to big global, societal challenges.

The Business Schools Executive Education team have also been


active in teaching and enabling world-class programme development
and delivery, specifically for the ISB and IIM-Bangalore.

We launched the Global Action on Poverty (GAP) competition in


October 2015, where MBA students were invited to put together a
business plan for an initiative to eradicate poverty. The winning team
attended the flagship GAP world summit in Gujarat, India, February
2016, and are continuing to develop their ideas and models.

GCII Research Director Professor Kalyan Talluri also now holds the
BML Munjal Chair on Global Business and Operations. As such,
Professor Talluri now spends a percentage of his time conducting
research and on-site teaching at BMU, New Delhi.

These successes have given us the opportunity for renewal and we


are now well placed to build on these excellent foundations.

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The Gandhi Centre

Launched in December 2007, the Gandhi Centre


for Inclusive Innovation (GCII) was established
to help companies across the globe improve
performance in innovation management. The
Centre thrives on its inherent values of utilising
cutting edge research, latest technology,
education and the best nextgeneration
innovation models.

Imperial Colleges world class expertise Mission


in applied research, together with the GCII seeks to act as a principal catalyst
multi-disciplinary approach of the Centre for linking Imperial College Londons core
provide a unique vehicle for corporate sector competencies within, and between, global
engagement for undertaking research companies and institutions. We thrive on
projects, executive education programmes, our inherent values of engaging with and
corporate venturing, and the dissemination developing thought leadership through
of next-generation innovation practices. impact on Education, Research and Industry.

As the Centre evolves, it provides access The Centre aims to provide channels of
to Imperial Colleges deep research base knowledge exchange between its global
and expertise in inclusive innovation partners by effective integration of research
with an emphasis on core intellectual and education.
contribution to energy, infrastructure,
As the Centre has evolved, Innovation for
health and digital platforms.
Inclusive Growth has emerged as the core
theme, with an emphasis on core intellectual
contribution to energy, infrastructure, health
and digital platforms.

The Centre emphasises inclusivity by way


of examining how communities can be served
through low-cost or resource-constrained
innovation. Within this theme, the areas
of focus which underlie all its research,
executive education, and dissemination
of best practice activities are:

Social Entrepreneurship
Leadership in Start-ups
Supply Chain/Logistics
Healthcare Delivery
Climate & Energy Studies

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Education The Scholarship has been pivotal
in enhancing my career through
a worldclass MBA which has not
only given me a better perspective
of the business world, but also
Mentoring a $5 billion Executive education: made me a good decision maker.
conglomerates university
In New Delhi (9 January 2013) it was agreed
Abu Dhabi School of Management Im currently a Senior Manager at
Finmeccanica
that Imperial College Business School will
act as a mentor institution to BML Munjal
the Agile Center of Excellence in
CLEPA, European Association
University (BMU), helping it develop and grow of Automotive Suppliers Cognizant technology solutions,
its School of Management. This collaboration
will encompass research and education IIMB helping clients become more Agile
activities, including designing teaching Sodecia and deliver high quality software
programmes, developing curriculum and
student exchange programmes, alongside
Total faster to market. My current
joint research projects, faculty exchange Unilver engagement is with the online
and executive education. Vodafone
domain at O2, Telefonica.
The inauguration ceremony took
place on 15 September 2014 Enabling leaders Premkumar Lakshminarayanan
In January 2014, Sunil Munjal, Joint MD Scholarships are awarded annually to MBA 200809
of Hero Group, the largest motorcycle outstanding Indian National students residing
and scooter manufacturer in the world, in India. Among them, are candidates in
announced support for a Chair at Imperial receipt of scholarships provided by the Tata
College Business School that will focus on: Group, in partnership with the Gandhi Centre.

Entrepreneurship Past scholars

Innovation 200708 The joint scholarship support by


Chintu Gandhi
Leadership in emerging markets
200809
Tata and GCII helped me to turn
Executive education Rahul Bansal, Avinashi Sharan, Gopala my long term dream into reality
Krishnan, Bhavin Zaveri, Premkumar
Ranked in the worlds top 20 for both salary
increase and career progression, the Lakshminarayanan
an MBA from one of the worlds
Imperial Executive MBA programme is a 200910 premier Business Schools. The
stimulating two-year part-time programme
designed for people who want to transform
Yuvraj Singh, Sundar Vasudevan, Saurabh Imperial MBA has been a great
Yadav, Suchika Gupta, Bikram Bajaj,
their business effectiveness and career. The Parikshit Dubey experience and has enabled me to
Imperial Executive MBA allows students to
continue current employment whilst being
201011 broaden my spectrum of thinking.
Niraj Thakkar, Prateet Minhas, Saumil Rampal,
exposed to new possibilities, opportunities The MBA successfully balances
and perspectives. Practical projects enable 201112
executives to apply their new knowledge to Rahul Garwal the precept of theory and practice
their careers and business.
201213 and Imperials focus on innovation,
Customised programmes for: Kapil Kumar, Hamir Sahni, Shashank Agarwal
entrepreneurship and design is
201314
BP
C Ram Prasad
definitely the icing on the cake! Its
Confederation of Indian Industry
time to live up to the expectations
Dr. Reddys
of being an Imperial alumnus
Fortis Healthcare
giving back to the society many
ISB
PWC
times over.
TATA BP Solar Ram Prasad Chandramohan
FT MBA 201314
TATA

Reaching over 600 executives and over


300 companies in partnership with the
Indian School of Business.

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Exemplifying sustainable Reverse innovating
electricity provision in Africa (bmp transfer to the west)
The Centre was awarded a major research With the World Intellectual Property
project by the EPSRC (600,000 over 5 years) Organization we investigated innovation
on the Replication of Rural Decentralized context and maturity of IP regimes in
Off-grid Electricity Generation in partnership developing economies where it is unclear
with the University of Southampton. whether tools will be appropriate.
However, new business models and low
In September 2013, the Energy for Development
cost innovations may offer locally-developed
(E4D) Network team celebrated the Kitonyoni
context-specific innovations that could
projects first year in operation. An end-line
equally benefit the Western world.
survey revealed a noticeable transformation
in activities around the trading centre as The 400,000 ESRC-funded Low Cost
well as providing a year of data to appraise Innovation project examines how practices
energy demand, business model and system in emerging economies can be applied in
performance. The project is now a beacon the advanced economy context.
in Africa having many local and international
Four papers have been written and accepted
visitors from Japan, Germany, UK, Zambia, the
to 4-star ABS journals, on knowledge
World Bank and other funding agencies.
transfer and integration challenges in the
multinational firm context. Case studies for
the next round of data collection have been
identified (incl. Nestle, Rolls Royce).

Industry Helping China become emissions-free


Rahul Bansal, Associate at the Gandhi
Building bridges
The Conversations with India lecture series
Centre, and Professor Richard Green have attracts 100+ attendees at each event, and
been advising coal mining companies in hosts speakers from BP, FT, NHS, Tata Sons,
Southwest China on commercial use of Coal among others. In March 2012, the Centre
Mine Methane (CMM) for the last two years. hosted a lecture and discussion with Mr Sunil
K Munjal from Hero Corporate Service on
In October 2013, Rahul presented a new
Manufacturing and Innovation in India: The
perspective on business models and
Hero Experience.
customer focus at a 2-day conference in
China (attendees include US & UK embassy Mr Sam Pitroda, Chairman of the National
officials, Chinese government, state-owned Innovation Council and Advisor to the Prime
corporations and coal mine operators). As Minister of India, and Mr Naveed Sultan,
a result, participants will now engage with Global Head of Treasury and Trade Solutions,
Imperials experts. Citi, visited Imperial in January 2014 to explore
opportunities with Imperial and the Royal
The Gandhi Centre continues to be part
College of Art.
of a professional taskforce on CMM
commercialisation, and continues to Improving treatment
support the establishment of a methane delivery in India & Africa
network in Southwest China. Our pilot project with UNAIDS and the Global
Fund Organisational Design to Improve
Treatment Programmes in HIV in India and
Sub-Saharan Africa examines the protection
of new born babies via an injection given to
mothers within a few hours of giving birth.
Phase 2 and 3 of this project will extend to 6
and 20 countries respectively, and is likely to
generate ongoing funding.

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Empowering Rural
Communities

Oorjas mission is to provide clean energy access to the


450 million people without access to reliable electricity
in rural India whilst promoting sustainable local
economic development.

Since mid-2015, Co-Founder Clementine Chambon has


been involved in rural electrification using renewables
through Oorja, a company based in the UK and in India
that she established with Amit Saraogi, an Indian social
entrepreneur. We spoke with Clementine to find out more
about Oorjas activities in the field of social enterprise and
innovation with limited resource.

Background Inspiration
I am a final-year PhD student in the I have been interested in renewable energy
Department of Chemical Engineering and and low carbon transition pathways for
have been at Imperial for three and a half nearly a decade. This interest evolved from
years now. My research interests lie in the desire to find innovative solutions and
biofuels and off-grid electricity provision using contribute to efforts in mitigating and adapting
biomass such as agricultural residues, woody to climate change, which is closely linked to
biomass and energy crops. Since mid-2015, I many challenges we confront today including
have also been involved in rural electrification food and water insecurity, energy poverty and Current research focus decentralized energy systems, including mini-
using renewables through Oorja, a company social inequity. As an undergraduate studying My PhD research within the Department of grids, and their climate impact. We recently
based in the UK and in India that I co-founded chemical engineering and biotechnology at Chemical Engineering is in the development published a paper in Energy for Sustainable
together with Amit Saraogi, an Indian social the University of Cambridge, I became keen of cost-effective biorefining processes Development on the energy use and CO2
entrepreneur. Oorjas aim is to deploy to gain expertise in technologies to produce with the aim of producing liquid biofuels, mitigation potential of replacing kerosene
decentralized energy systems known as renewable fuels and electricity from waste chemicals and materials from waste biomass. with clean electricity in off-grid villages
mini-grids to provide affordable and reliable materials, and decided to pursue a PhD at My work, supervised by Dr Jason Hallett and in Uttar Pradesh, India. As part of Oorjas
electricity to off-grid and under-electrified Imperial on this topic. It was during a climate Prof Paul Fennell, has focused on scaling first mini-grid, which has been fitted with
communities in rural India. These mini-grids change workshop in 2014 that I met my up the Ionosolv process developed at the advanced smart meters, we will be monitoring
are powered by biomass and solar PV and we co-founder Amit and we developed the College. This process uses novel green end-users including households and farmers
installed the first one in rural Uttar Pradesh concept for Oorja, which emerged from solvents known as ionic liquids to transform to better understand the techno-economics
in June 2017. The common theme of all these our mutual interest in using clean energy biomass into valuable products, such as and social impact of these mini-grids in rural
efforts is using biomass residues to mitigate to accelerate social change and economic bioethanol and aromatic chemicals. Beyond off-grid areas of developing countries such as
climate change, by displacing fossil fuels development in rural India whilst reducing this, I also collaborate with other researchers India. We expect that this work will help both
and reducing CO2 emissions in the energy, greenhouse gas emissions. on related topics such as biomass academics and private developers such as
chemicals and transport sectors. gasification, lignin pyrolysis and biochar Oorja to understand the costs and growth in
production from sewage sludge. energy demand of rural users so that future
deployments of mini-grids can be better
Through Oorja, we have become involved in
designed and optimized to cost-effectively
research with the Department of Physics and
meet their specific needs.
the Grantham Institute for Climate Change,
led by Prof Jenny Nelson. Their work aims to
model the cost and technical performance of

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Challenges Impact to date she will bring extra income to the family, Future research & impact
There are several challenges associated with We believe clean energy provision is replace her kerosene lamp with LED bulbs On the academic side, we hope to continue
utilising biomass, particularly wastes such fundamental to poverty reduction and a powered by clean and affordable power and collaborating with researchers at Imperial to
as agricultural residues which have many critical enabler of sustainable development, live with dignity. Her two children will be able monitor and evaluate the techno-economics
competing uses, including as animal fodder, stimulating better education and to study after dark, improving their academic and social and environmental impacts of
firewood or as a building material. However, health, agricultural practices, womens outcomes; her husband, a marginalized our rural electrification work. We believe
many of these residues, such as rice husk and empowerment and the local economy farmer with less than two acres of land and it is really important that the knowledge
straw, are abundantly available with millions with opening of new micro-enterprises earning less than $2 a day will be able to we gain through deploying these off-grid
of tons produced in surplus each year, and and creation of jobs. We are preparing for replace the operationally expensive diesel energy systems can be shared with other
supply chains for these materials are being pilot implementation and when operational pump with solar powered pump to irrigate stakeholders in the clean energy sector so
developed. Working on energy access in we will help address challenges of energy his land. that we can expand our reach, as the number
remote, rural areas of India brings its own poverty, livelihood opportunities and use of off-grid citizens is over 230 million in India
Proudest achievements
set of external obstacles, such as mistrust by of hazardous and polluting fossil fuels alone, and over 1.3 billion people globally.
The proudest achievement I would say is
farmers in changing agricultural practices, simultaneously. Some of the metrics we
yet to come when our pilot mini-grid will be From an entrepreneurial perspective, after
caste dynamics, social and cultural barriers will use to measure impact are increase in
installed and commissioned in summer 2017 our first mini-grid is successfully installed, we
in rural markets and difficulty in changing energy access in households, businesses
to provide clean and affordable electricity aim to obtain seed funding from institutional
consumer behaviour. To overcome these and institutions; number of jobs generated
to 100 households and 50 farmers in an investors to scale up our efforts and install
challenges we work closely with local field (gender disaggregated); change in household
off-grid village in India. We will celebrate hundreds of mini-grids over the next few
partners (social enterprises, NGOs, civil and farmers income; change in learning
when the first lights are switched on and we years. It is our endeavour to expand access to
society organisations) and local government outcomes; change in incidence of respiratory
see the smiles on the faces of the community clean energy using renewables in rural India
to leverage their existing networks and diseases; and lifecycle avoided GHG
members. However, everything that has gone and to reach over 1 million citizens in the next
positions of trust. The regulatory framework emissions.
into making this a reality such as conducting five years. You can keep track of our progress
for the rural energy sector in India can also
The changes in rural settings upon uptake research, demand forecasting, selecting the by visiting oorjasolutions.org.
present bureaucratic hurdles. Decentralized
of clean energy can be remarkably drastic. pilot site, designing the grid, fostering the
energy systems are gaining currency,
A few months ago, an Oorja team member right technical and academic partnerships,
however, and we are taking Ministries in the
met Rukmani from Girant village, our first raising the finances, procuring the equipment
government as partners and forging strong
potential plant operator. As we integrate her and working on implementation has been
connections with local governing authorities.
into the value chain with the launch of our immensely rewarding and exciting. Weve
pilot DC solar mini-grid later this year, received quite a bit of recognition for our
work with Oorja in the last couple of years.
In June 2015 we received the prestigious
Echoing Green Climate Fellowship
comprising of a grant of US$90,000 given to
the best next-generation social entrepreneurs
working on mitigation or adaptation to climate
change. We also received an Althea-Imperial
runner-up prize that year, presented to the
Oorjas mission is to provide clean energy
most innovative student entrepreneurs in
science and technology at Imperial. Last year 450m access to the 450 million people without
access to reliable electricity in rural India
we were one of 10 energy start-ups out of
over 3,000 applicants at the Hello Tomorrow
Global Summit in Paris and also among the
Top 20 companies out of over 1300 applicants
to MassChallenge UK, an esteemed
accelerator for early-stage start-ups. More Oorja received US$90,000 grant from Echoing
recently we were selected to participate in the
French Tech Ticket incubation programme in
$90k Green Climate Fellowship for the best next-
generation social entrepreneurs working on
Paris with funding and other support from the mitigation or adaptation to climate change
French government.

I am also honored to be among the 30 Under


30 social entrepreneurs in Europe selected
by Forbes and Social Innovator of the Year 100 households and 50 farmers will be
2016 by the MIT Technology Review France.
These recognitions certainly enthuse us to 100 provided with clean and affordable
electricity in an off-grid village in India
continue striving to put power back in the in summer 2017
hands of rural community members.

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Research

Generating ideas & paradigms Eisingerich AB, Chun HH, Liu Y,Jia HM, Bell Sankalp Chaturvedi Nelson Phillips Kalyan Talluri
for inclusive innovation SJ et al., 2015 Director of the Gandhi Centre and Nelson is Acting Dean of Imperial College Kalyan Talluri is a Professor of Operations
The Gandhi Centre has continued to carry Why recommend a brand face-to-face but Associate Professor, Sankalp joined the Business School. He is an expert in scaling Management in the Department of
out research with companies such as TATA not on Facebook? How word-of-mouth on Gandhi Centre in 2008. He focuses on up high-growth ventures, technology strategy Management. Professor Talluris
BP Solar, Value Labs and Merck. online social sites differs from traditional Organizational Citizenship Behaviour, & innovation, and organization theory. research interestes arein network
word-of-mouth Leadership, and Interpersonal Trust. and service design, data analytics,
Professor Gerry George published his latest
Journal of Consumer Psychology revenue management and pricing.
book Models of Opportunity in 2012, linking
scholarly research on business models and Wheelock A, Parand A, Rigole B,Thomson A,
organisational design to the reality of building Miraldo M, Vincent C, Sevdalis N et al., 2015
entrepreneurial design to the reality of building Socio-Psychological Factors Driving Adult
entrepreneurial firms. The book has sold Vaccination: A Qualitative Study
over 3000 copies, and is being applied in Plos One
corporate training workshops. Malhotra N, Hinings CRB, 2015
A Special Issue on Innovation for Inclusive Unpacking Continuity and Change as a
Growth has been completed for the Journal Process of Organizational Transformation
of Management Studies which sets a Long Range Planning
Richard Green Andreas Eisingerich Namrata Malhotra
research agenda and starts discussions on Green R, Staffell I, Vasilakos N, 2014 Richard Green is the Alan and Sabine Howard Dr Andreas B. Eisingerich is Professor of Dr Namrata Malhotra is an Associate
how the challenges of resource-constrained Divide and Conquer? k-Means Clustering of Professor of Sustainable Energy Business, Marketing at Imperial College Business Professor in Strategy at the Imperial
innovation can be scrutinized and overcome. Demand Data Allows Rapid and Accurate and Head of the Department of Management. School, best known for his work on consumer College Business School, joining
Simulations of the British Electricity System engagement and communication strategies, the Gandhi Centre in 2015.
IEEE Transactions on Engineering brand management, and service innovation.
Refereed journals Management

Reb, J; Chaturvedi, S; Ekkirala, S. 2017 Pinto J, 2014


The Mediating Role of Emotional Exhaustion Entrepreneurs Cognitive Biases and
in the Relationship of Mindfulness with Heuristics in Entrepreneurial Team
Turnover Intentions and Job Performance Recruitment
Mindfulness Academy of Management Proceedings.

Green, R; Steffell, L. 2017 George, G., Rao-Nicholson, R., Corbishley, C.,


Prosumage and the British Electricity Bansal, R. 2013
Market Institutional entrepreneurship, governance
Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy and poverty: Insights from emergency
Anu Wadhwa Marisa Miraldo Tufool Al-Nuaimi
medical response services in India
Galizzi, MM; Miraldo, M. 2017 Anu Wadhwa is an Associate Professor Marisa joined Imperial College Business Tufool is an Assistant Professor of Data
Asia Pacific Journal of Management
Are You What You Eat? Healthy Behaviour of Strategy and Entrepreneurship. Anus School and the Health Care Management Science and Innovation. Tufools recent
and Risk Preferences George, G., Kotha, R., Parikh, P., Alnuaimi, T., research examines patterns and processes Group as an Assistant Professor in research endeavours involve stitching and
B E Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy Bahaj, A. 2013 of entrepreneurship in established firms, and Economics in 2008, examining regulation analysing data from disparate sources
Wealth Shocks and Entrepreneurial the impact of corporate entrepreneurship and competition in the health care sector. examining pertinent questions about
Wadhwa, A; Phelps, C; Kotha, S. 2016
Intentions: Entrepreneurship in Rural Africa on organizational innovation. innovation and organisational performance.
Corporate Venture Capital Portfolios and
Academy of Management Journal
Firm Innovation
Journal of Business Venturing Schillebeeckx, S., Parikh, P., Bansal, R.,
George, G. 2012
Schillebeeckx, S; Chaturvedi, S; George, G;
An integrated framework for rural
King, Z. 2015
electrification: Adopting a user-centric
What do I want? The effects of individual
approach to business model development
aspiration and relational capability on
Energy Policy
collaboration preferences
Strategic Management Journal Talluri, K., Martinez de Albeniz, V. 2010
Dynamic price competition with fixed
capacities Jonathan Pinto Yuri Mishina
Dr Jonathan Pinto is Assistant Professor, Yuri Mishina is an assistant professor of
Organizational Behaviour at Imperial College organisational behavior/strategy at Imperial
Business School, joining the Gandhi Centre College Business School, researching
team in 2015. Jonathans research revolves within-firm corporate governance
around trust and interdependence. processes, and how belief systems influence
strategic choices and outcomes.

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Impact UK Asia/Pacific Core team
ESRC low cost innovation Dr Sankalp Chaturvedi
research Director, Gandhi Centre, Associate
The Gandhi Centre continues to have a Munjal chair at ICBS 5 program Professor, OB and Leadership
development and
tremendous impact globally so far, with Strategy for Imperial west
5 delivery at ISB-
Hyderabad, IIPM
Nelson Phillips
Acting Dean of Imperial College
such ventures as: and IIM-Bangalore. Business School
Professor Kalyan Talluri
Professor of Operations Management,
Director of Research, Gandhi Centre
4 Executive education
(in Partnership Richard Green

4 with ISB) for 600+


Executives and 300+
Professor
Andreas Eisingerich
companies. Professor
Dr Tufool Al-Nuaimi
Assistant Professor

3 HIV-aids Dr Namrata Malhotra


Associate Professor
3
treatment delivery
improvement Dr Anu Wadhwa
programme. Associate Professor
Dr Jonathan Pinto
Assistant Professor
Dr Yuri Mishina
2 Mentoring BML Assistant Professor

2 Munjal University,
which opened doors
Mr Rahul Bansal
Associate
in July 2014.
Miss Hannah Webb
Gandhi Centre Coordinator
13.5 kWp photovoltaic solar plant assembled
in one week in Kitonyoni, Kenya, September
Advisory board
2012. This was of immediate benefit to 3000
local people, plus schools, a health centre Professor Gerard George Dean
and 40 businesses. Lee Kong Chian School of Business,
Rahul Bansal (Associate of Gandhi Singapore Management University
Centre) presented a new perspective on Mr Anurag Dikshit
commercialisation of Coal Mine Methane Founder, Kusuma Trust
(CMM) to a range of high level public and
Mr Sashi Mukundan
private stakeholders.
Country Head India, BP Group Companies
The Centre is now part of a professional
Professor Jenny Nelson
taskforce for commercialisation of CMM. The
Professor of Physics, Imperial College London
Centre has reached 600+ executives in India,
and 300+ companies, in collaboration with Dr Krishnamurthy Raj Rajagopal
the Indian School of Business (ISB). Non-Executive Director, FSI International Inc,
Dyson Group plc & Foseco plc
We are very active in programme
development and delivery, including at Professor Nilay Shah
the ISB, Indian Institute of Planning and Professor of Process Systems Engineering,
Management, BMU and IIM-Bangalore. Imperial College London
Europe (excl. UK)
BML Munjal University opened its doors Founding Patrons
in July 2014, and the first cohort is now Report on emerging economy BP Foundation and Kusuma Trust
enrolledImperial College Business and business model innovation
School acting as mentor. for WIPO.
Africa/Middle East
The Centre has contributed to the strategy
Off-grid 13.5 kwp solar power generation site
behind the now-complete 200 million
in Kitonyoni, Kenya benefitting 3,000 locals
research and translation hub at Imperial
and 40 businesses.
West campus (London).

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Our vision Connecting global business
via the Gandhi Centre to
201520
cutting-edge research at
Imperial College London.

The Gandhi Centre (GCII), based at the


Imperial College Business School, is
fantastically positioned at the crossroads
to connect one of the worlds best
research universities, Imperial College
Dr Sankalp Chaturvedi London, with global communities and
Director of the Gandhi
Centre for Inclusive economies. Looking towards the future,
Innovation
the Gandhi Centre envisions to work
towards progressive and sustainable
growth in research, education and
corporate engagement.
We continue to aspire to channel Imperial College Londons research
base and expertise to the priority sectors of strategic importance,
including our India-UK partnership. GCII will continue to service the
research needs of our learning community, granting access to our
numerous and varied informational resources, cementing our focus
in areas such as: Leadership challenges in start-ups and SMEs;
Business Analytics, Social Entrepreneurship; Climate Change and
Management; Healthcare delivery, incentives and impact; Digital
Innovation and Public Service Design.

GCII, with Imperial College Business School, will aim to provide


excellence in the educational sector by providing a platform to engage
institutions for exchange of knowledge and best practices and to
prepare executives and students to become next generation leaders,
innovators and entrepreneurs.

GCII will anchor Imperial College Londons strategy for engagement


with global communities and act as a knowledge broker between
Imperial College London and corporate businesses. We believe in
deep collaboration and crosspollination of our groups, which allow
us to innovate and encourage excellent service-delivery across many
environmental, social and economic areas.

Continuing our efforts in building partnerships and leading on from


the current relationships with several business groups, we will also
launch our Business Growth Club, with a view to increasing our
support base and impact latest management thinking and research. Find out more:
Finally, we will resurrect our annual Leading Growth lecture series T: +44 (0)20 7594 5485
which will involve several prominent figures in education and industry E: gc@imperial.ac.uk
as key-note speakers.
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and dedication, and we look forward to your continued support for a
successful and productive five years at GCII. Please get in touch with
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