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XIV Annual Conference of Forum for Global Knowledge Sharing

(Knowledge Forum) Supported by TATA TRUSTS

Conference Theme: Technology and Economy

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras, Chennai


Venue: IC&SR Building, IIT Madras, Chennai
October 11-13, 2019

Programme

October 11, 2019, Friday


8:30-9:00 Registration
IC&SR, Hall – III
9:00-10:00 Introductory Session
Chair: N. S. Siddharthan
President, Knowledge Forum and Hon. Professor, Madras School of
Economics
Welcome: Umakant Dash
Head, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras
Opening Remarks: Bhaskar Ramamurthy
Director, IIT Madras , Chennai
Tour of the Sessions: K. Narayanan
Hon. Secretary, Knowledge Forum and Professor, IIT Bombay, Mumbai
Remarks by Chair: N.S. Siddharthan,
President, Knowledge Forum and Hon. Professor Madras School of
Economics
Vote of Thanks: Bino Paul
Treasurer, Knowledge Forum and Professor, TISS, Mumbai

10:00-10:30 Tea/Coffee
IC&SR, Hall – III
10:30-12:00 FDI - I
Chair/Discussant: Stanley Nollen, GeorgeTown University, Washington
DC
1. Filip De Beule, (KU Leuven University, Belgium), Joren Nevens
[email protected], “Impact of internationalization on
innovation: A patent analysis”
2. Uday Bhanu Sinha, (Delhi School of Economics, Delhi),
[email protected] “FDI and International Collusion”

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3. Alex Eapen, Jihye Yeo (Australian National University, Australia), and


Rejie George (IIM, Bangalore) [email protected], “BUSINESS
GROUP AFFILIATION AND FDI SPILLOVERS”

12:00-13:30 Environment
Chair/Discussant:
K. Lal, Society for Development Studies, Delhi and UNU-MERIT
1. Bino Paul, Unmesh Patnaik and Kamal Murari, (Tata Institute of Social
Sciences, Mumbai), [email protected], “How do micro/small
enterprises organise waste in India: a scenario of common purpose or
a tragedy?”
2. Geetha Mohan, Ranjeeta Mishra, Kensuke Fukushi, Rimba A. Besse,
Ram Avtar, Lakshmi Narayana Perarapu, Saroj Kumar Chapagain, and I
Made Sudarma (University of Tokyo and UNU Tokyo),
[email protected] “Factors affecting and farmers’ perception of
the adoption of water-saving irrigation technologies in semi-arid states
in India”
3. Aravindhan N. and Jayaraman T., (Tata Institute of Social Sciences,
Mumbai), [email protected], “Plastic Recycling
Clusters in India: Material Flows and Technological Capacities of
Recycling Firm”
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
IC&SR Hall - II
14:30 – 16:30 Innovation and energy studies
Chair/Discussant: Malathy Duraisamy, IIT Madras, Chennai
1. Narayanan K. (IIT Bombay), Bino Paul and Unmesh Patnaik (Tata
Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai), [email protected],“The triad
of Labour, Innovation and Enterprises: emergent scenarios in South
Asia”
2. Ketan Reddy, Radeef Chundakkadan, and Subash Sasidharan (IIT
Madras), [email protected], “Innovation and Global Value
Chain Participation: A Firm-Level Investigation”
3. Madhabendra Sinha (NIT Durgapur), Anjan Ray Chaudhury (Durgapur
Government College) and Partha Pratim Sengupta (NIT Durgapur),
[email protected],“ FDI, Trade and CO2 Emission in the Era
of Digitalisation: An Empirical Study on Asia and Pacific Developing
Countries”
4. Avinash Prasad Kshitij and Kasturi Mandal (NISTAD),
[email protected], “Innovation Capabilities in Renewable
Energy in India: The case of Marine Energy”

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16:30-17: 00 Tea/Coffee
IC&SR Hall - II
17:00-18:30 FDI – II
Chair/Discussant: B L Pandit, formerly Delhi School of Economics,
Delhi
1. Nadia Doytch (City University of New York- Brooklyn College),
[email protected], “Upgrading Destruction? How Do Climate-
related and Geophysical Natural Disasters Impact Sectoral FDI”
2. Savita Bhat (NIT Surathkal), [email protected], “Determinants of
OFDI of Manufacturing Firms from India to the Developed Countries
within OECD”
3. Khanindra Ch. Das (BIMTECH, Greater Noida), [email protected],
“International Subsidiary Closure in The Software
Services Sector: The Experience of Indian Software Services
Multinationals”

18:30 – 19:30 Governing Council Meeting

19:30 onwards Dinner

October 12, 2019, Saturday


IC&SR Hall - II
9:30-11:00 Econophysics
Session Organised by Ashok Jain, Former Director NISTAD and M. K.
Das, Delhi University
Chair/Discussant: Y S Rajan, ISRO
1. Ashok Jain (Former Director NISTAD) [email protected] and M.
K. Das (Delhi University) [email protected], “Modeling Complex
Behavior of Financial system: Effect of Time-delayed Feedback”
2. Anindita Bhattacharjee (Amity College of Commerce and Finance),
[email protected], “Statistical Investigation of Financial time
series: Indicators for long term correlation”
3. L. M. Saha (Shiv Nadar University), [email protected],
“Application of Asymptotic Stability Analysis to Price Dynamics”

11:00-11:30 Tea/Coffee

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IC&SR Hall - II
11:30 – 13:30 Industry
Chair/Discussant: Alakh N Sharma, Institute for Human Development,
New Delhi
1. Asmita Goswami and K. Narayanan (IIT Bombay), [email protected],
“Firm Ownership, Technological Efforts and Productivity: A study of
Information Technology Firms in India”
2. Prantik Bagchi and Santosh Kumar Sahu (IIT Madras),
[email protected], “Firm-level Externality and Production Effects in
Indian Manufacturing Sector”
3. Mohammad Shahid Zaman and Anup Kumar Bhandari (IIT Madras),
[email protected], “Technological Progress and TFP
Growth: An Empirical Analysis of the Indian Commercial Banks”
4. R. Rijesh (The Institute for Studies in Industrial Development),
[email protected], “Trade Reforms, Technology Import and
Productivity in Indian Manufacturing Firms”
13:30-14:30 Lunch
IC&SR Hall - II
14:30-16:30 R&D and Innovation
Chair/Discussant: Ashok Jain, Former Director NISTAD

1. Anurag Anand, (Center for Development Studies),


[email protected], “Technology and Export Performance of
Indian Pharmaceutical Industry: Comparative Study of Foreign
MNCs and Domestic Companies”
2. Beena P L and Siddik Rabiyath (Center for Development Studies),
[email protected], “IPR institutions, Innovation activities and
Developmental Implications of IP Asset Intensive Industries”
3. Nidhi Singh, (Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health &
Family Welfare), [email protected], “Economic Liberalisation
and the Development of Molecular Diagnostics Industry in India: An
Innovation System Perspective”
4. P. Geetha Rani, Megha Shree and Rajesh Shukla,
[email protected], “Return to skills in India; the role of digital
access and usage”

16:30 – 17:00 Tea/Coffee

17:00 – 18:30 General Body Meeting

19:00 Conference Dinner


onwards

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October 13, 2019, Sunday


IC&SR Hall - II
9:00-10:00 Panel A: Legal and Ethical Issues with Artificial Intelligence
Moderator: Professor V. Kamakoti, IIT Madras, [email protected]

Panellists

• B. Ravindran, IIT Madras; [email protected]


• G. S. Madhusudan, CTO INCORE, [email protected]
• Bimal N. Patel, VC GNLU, [email protected], [email protected]

10:00-10:30 Tea/Coffee
10:30-11:30 Panel B: Economic Problems Solvable using Artificial Intelligence
Moderator: S. Mahalingam, Former CFO, TCS,
[email protected]

Panellists

• K. Ananth Krishnan, TCS; [email protected]


• Abhilash Mishra, NSE Academy; [email protected]
• T. K. Ramkumar, Advocate, Patents, Trademarks & IPR Attorneys;
[email protected]

11:30-12:30 Concluding Session

12:30 Lunch
onwards

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