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India as a Pioneer of Innovation: Constraints and Opportunities
November 14, 15, 18, 2013
Various Times, Locations

Penn will host a three-day interdisciplinary conference to explore India as a pioneer of innovation. Throughout the past decades, India has emerged as a global leader in business, diplomacy, and innovation in the broadest sense. This conference seeks to explore this trend as it will join the perspectives of history, law, and education with those of management, urban design, and public health. 

Agenda Highlights

Thursday, November 14, 2013 | University of Pennsylvania School of Law, 3501 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

  • Panel 1: Innovation and Enterprise in the History of Indian Business

  • Panel 2: Evolving Roles of Corporation in Indian Society 

  • Keynote Address with Sam Pitroda, Adviser to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovations

Friday, November 15, 2013 | University of Pennsylvania School of Law, 3501 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

  • Panel 3: The Legal and Regulatory Framework Promoting and Limiting Innovation: Pharmaceutical & Healthcare IP Innovation

  • Keynote Address with Chanda Kochhar, Managing Director and CEO of ICICI Bank

  • Panel 4: Innovation in Public Services

  • Keynote Address with Arvind Subramanian, Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics; Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development

  • Panel 5: Innovation within Cities - Innovation for Slums and Informal Settlements

Monday, November 18, 2013 | Wharton San Francisco, 2 Harrison Street, San Francisco, CA 94105

  • Panel 1: India's Role in Global Innovation 

  • Panel 2: The Legal and Regulatory Framework Promoting and Limiting Innovation: Encouraging Expressive Creativity While Ensuring Equitable Access

  • Keynote Address with Kanwal Rekhi, Managing Director of Inventus Capital Partners; First Indian-American Founder and CEO to IPO on NASDAQ