GEM-INDIA Team

The GEM India Team will have its secretariat at the lead institution Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII) and Dr. Sunil Shukla (Director General, EDII) will lead the consortium. A committee discussed and decided roles/responsibilities, key activities of partner institutions.

About the team

The GEM programme is a major initiative aimed at studying, analysing and describing entrepreneurial processes within a wide range of counties. To contribute towards GEM India Report, an initiative was taken by Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), Gandhinagar along with the Institute of Management Technology (IMT, Ghaziabad) and Indian School of Business (ISB, Hyderabad). All three institutions formed a consortium namely GEM India Team in 2012 with EDII as the lead institute. The team had participated in three annual study cycles during 2012 -2015 and delivered a National Report (GEM National Report-2013) after a long gap of more than 10 years. This team has also contributed the GEM India National Report in 2014.

Being a pioneer in Entrepreneurship Education and Research in India, EDII took an initiative to continue GEM India studies by reforming the consortium with new partners. EDII initiated a dialogue between with two state level institutions practising entrepreneurship (Centre for Entrepreneurship Development Madhya Pradesh-Bhopal and Jammu Kashmir Entrepreneurship Development Institute-Srinagar). The Three partner institutions viz. EDII, CEDMAP and JKEDI could together complete three annual cycles and published GEM India National Reports 2015/16, 2016/17 and 2017/18 (in press) successfully.

In year 2018 another consortium of two Institutions has been formed to conduct the GEM India Research for 2018-21. Now the GEM India Consortium has EDI, CEDMAP as partner institution.

Formation of GEM India Consortium and Signing of MoU

A new GEM India Consortium has been formed on 19th March 2018. Three institutions 'Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India - EDII (Gandhinagar)', and 'Centre for Entrepreneurship Development Madhya Pradesh-CEDMAP (Bhopal)'- have signed an MOU for the next three annual cycles - commencing from April 2018. The partner institutions agreed to fulfil GEM Annual Cycle and other obligations, in a time-bound manner, to suit the GEM Global schedule.

The EDII-Gandhinagar is the Lead Institution and the Secretariat of the GEM India Team. Prof. Sunil Shukla is the National Team Leader for GEM India Project.

Team Members

Dr. Sunil Shukla

Director General - Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Email: sunilshukla@ediindia.org

Dr Sunil Shukla is the Director General of Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII).His research and consulting interests include entry barriers to entrepreneurship, curriculum development, intrapreneurship, family business management and organizational culture. Dr Shukla has been helping various organizations and corporates in strategic planning and capacity building of employees besides grooming their managers as intrapreneurs, leading to conducive climate for corporate entrepreneurship. Dr Shukla has been leading, the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) India Consortium as a national team leader since 2012. He is the lead author of GEM India National Report 2014, 2015/16, 2016/17. Dr. Shukla is the recipient of USASBE’s Outstanding Entrepreneurship Programme Abroad Award-2014 for PGDM-BE Programme during Annual Conference of United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE), the world’s largest association of entrepreneurship scholars, professional and practitioners, Fort Worth, USA.

Dr. Pankaj Bharti

Faculty- Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Email: pbharti@ediindia.org

Dr Pankaj Bharti has been working as a Faculty at Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), Gandhinagar. He specializes in Organizational Behaviour, Human Resource Management and Corporate Entrepreneurship. He holds more than 11 years’ experience in the academics and industry. He is trained in conceptualizing and developing measurement tools for Social Science Research. He is also a National Team Member of GEM India. He has published papers and book on ‘Dehumanization of Urban and Rural Poor’. He is associated with more than twenty research projects and programmes.

Dr. Amit Kumar Dwivedi

Associate Professor and Incharge Department of Policy Advocacy, Knowledge and Research - Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Email: akdwivedi@ediindia.org

Dr. Amit K. Dwivedi has over 13 years of teaching and research experience. Currently, he is a National Team Member of GEM India. He is associated with reputed national and international journals as editor and editorial board member and has published research papers, reviews, and books. Dr. Dwivedi has published his papers in Int. Entrepreneurship and Management Journal (IEMJ), Int. Journal of Procurement Management (IJPM), Int. Journal of Business Continuity and Risk Management (IJBCRM), Int. Journal of Operational Research (IJOR), Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies (EEMCS) and several book reviews in the Journal of Entrepreneurship. Dr. Dwivedi is one of the co-authors of GEM India Reports 2014, 2015/16, 2016/17. He has presented research papers in national and international conferences in India and abroad. He has participated in a training of trainers programme for teaching ‘Business Simulation’, organized by ILS, held at University of Tennessee, Texas, USA. Dr. Dwivedi also, participated in GEM Annual Meeting held at Kuala-Lumpur, Malaysia in 2017.