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and Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, Startup Amit K. Dwivedi
Accelerators in the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem at Ph.D. (Commerce)
MASHAV - Israel's Agency for International akdwivedi@ediindia.org
Development Cooperation, Israel. Involved in
entrepreneurship teaching and startup growth.
Worked as a Research Fellow with the Centre for Has over 17 years of teaching and research experience.
Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship at IIM Currently, he is a National Team Member of the Global
Ahmedabad. Trained in Application of Simulation for Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) India Consortium
Entrepreneurship Teaching at the University of and has co-authored four GEM reports. He is associated
Tennessee, USA. with reputed national and international journals as a
reviewer, editor and editorial board member. Dr.
Dwivedi has authored research papers, book reviews,
and a textbook. Dr. Dwivedi has presented his research
Tarun Bedi
at national and international conferences in India and
M.A. (Sociology),
abroad. He participated in a Training of Trainers’
M.A. (Rural Development)
programme for teaching 'Business Simulation',
B.E. (Civil)
organized by ILS, held at the University of Tennessee,
tarun@ediindia.org
Texas, USA.
Has over 27 years of experience in the field of
Entrepreneurship Development. Engaged in areas of Pankaj Bharti
rural development, development of micro enterprises, Ph.D. (Psychology)
implementing and providing hand-holding support to pbharti@ediindia.org
unorganised sectors like handloom, handicraft and
village industries. He has also been engaged in action
research, evaluation studies, etc. He also works as a Has over 22 years of teaching and research experience.
Cluster Development Executive for several important Specialises in Social Psychology, Organisational
clusters and is engaged in planning and Behaviour and Research Methods. He is trained in
i m p l e m e n ta t i o n o f t h e S ta r t- u p V i l l a g e conceptualising and developing measurement tools for
Entrepreneurship Programme (SVEP) of the Ministry of social science research. He has published nine papers
Rural Development, Govt. of India. and a book - Dehumanisation of Urban and Rural Poor.

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