Ahmedabad, January 06: Premier B-school Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, today said it has initiated the process of setting up a fund, which will provide support to research on emerging economies.
“We shall set up a fund that will provide support not only to the IIM-A faculty but to faculty from anywhere who undertakes research on emerging economy,” Director of the institute Samir Barua said while addressing the 4th biennial IIM-A Conference on ‘Marketing in Emerging Economies’.
“Although, the fund size is not known, but it will be a substantially large fund,” Piyush Kumar Sinha, a member of IIM-A conference co-ordination committee said.
“Faculty of any business school working on emerging economies can send their proposal to IIM-A and seek funding from institution once the fund is launched,” he said.
–Agencies