INDIA Today: Industry, Innovation and Education
Working Schedule
Friday, October 31, to Sunday, November 2
Friday, Oct. 31, 5—8 PM;
Saturday, Nov. 1, 9 AM—6:30 PM;
Sunday, Nov. 2, 8:30 AM—1 PM;
Venue—CMU—Porter Hall 100 on Friday and Saturday;
CMU—Baker Hall A51, Giant Eagle Auditorium on Sunday
Main text: Arvind Panagariya, INDIA: The Emerging Giant, Oxford, 2008
Friday, Oct. 31, 5-8 PM
5—5:30 PM
CMU—Porter Hall 100
Brief Introduction & Welcome
Indira Nair, Carnegie Mellon University
Patricia Beeson, University of Pittsburgh
5:30—6:30 PM
Sunil Wadhwani, Co-Chairman and Co-Founder of iGATE Corporation
An Entrepreneur’s perspective on India: Industry, Innovation and Education
6:30—8 PM
Arvind Panagariya, Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs
Indian Growth Miracle: Will it Sustain?
Saturday, Nov. 1, (main instructional day) 9 AM–6:30 PM
CMU Porter Hall 100
9—10 AM
Arvind Panagariya, Columbia University
Growth and Economic Policies in India: 1950—2006
10:15 AM—12:30 PM
Loren Brandt, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Toronto
Industrial Upgrading and Economic Growth in China
Arvind Panagariya, Columbia University
Trade and Foreign Investment: Comparing India and China
1:30—3 PM
Lee Branstetter, Associate Professor, H. John Heinz III College,
Carnegie Mellon University
From Underdogs to Tigers: The rise of the software industry
in India and emerging countries
3:15—4:30 PM
Smita Srinivas, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning,
Director, Technological Change Lab (TCLab), Columbia University
Industry and Innovation issues in the Biotech and Pharmaceutical Sectors
in India
5—6:30 PM
Rabikar Chatterjee, Professor of Business Administration and Katz Graduate School of Business Management, University of Pittsburgh, Faculty Fellow
in Marketing
The Indian Consumer: A case-based discussion
Sunday, Nov. 2, 8:30 AM—1 PM
Baker Hall A51, Giant Eagle Auditorium
8:30—10 AM
John Camillus, Donald R. Beall Professor of Strategic Management, Katz Graduate School of Business Management, University of Pittsburgh
Innovation & Eco Systems in India
10—11:30 AM
Arvind Panagariya, Columbia University
Indian Educational System(s)—Strengths & Weaknesses
11:45 AM—1 PM
Panel discussion: Emerging India—Challenges and Prospects
John Camillus, Rabikar Chatterjee, Arvind Panagariya, Smita Srinivas,
Sunil Wadhwani
Moderator—Patricia Beeson, Executive Administrator, Office of the Provost, University of Pittsburgh
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