Soumodip Sarkar

Soumodip Sarkar is an Indian economist and university professor, one of the European leaders in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation in management. He is an associate professor of the Department of Management, University of Évora, Évora, Portugal.

Dr. Sarkar did his graduate studies at Northeastern University, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. where he got a Ph.D. He worked at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) and later at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, where was also a visiting professor the Asia Center in 2006.

Presently Dr. Sarkar is director of the Centro de Estudos e Formação Avançada em Gestão e Economia (Center for Advanced Studies in Management and Economics) and coordinator of the Masters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, both at the University of Évora.

His research interests are international management and finances, entrepreneurship and innovation, outsourcing and competitiveness. He has acted as a consultant to several European and international projects, such as USAID and Nathan Associates and is well known for a theoretical and practical model for enterprises called the Integrated Innovation Model (IIM), which has been applied successfully to more than a thousand companies, and which is now initially being marketed in Portugal and Brazil as an advanced solution for management diagnosis.

He has extensive international experience (worked in U.S., Vietnam, India, Mozambique, Brazil, Portugal etc) on competitiveness settings and projects. One of his current research interests focus on digital cities, as a kind of sustainable model.

Dr Sarkar's work has been recently recognized by an award by the Association of International Business, during the 2005 International Conference on Globalization and Competitiveness, with his paper “A Rose in Another Name: An Integrated Model of Outsourcing”.

He is the author of a new approach to innovation, that links innovation to market outcome, with a novel theoretical framework. This model describes market archetypes of products, explains sustainability of innovation, product life cycle and the struggle for innovation leaders to stay ahead, in one integrated framework. This model is the basis of his book published by Springer Verlag, entitled: "Innovation, Market Archetypes and Outcome- An Integrated Framework".

References

* Special Issue on: “Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Growth”. Soumodip Sarkar, Guest Editor, University of Evora. "International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management", Volume 5 - Issue 5/6 - 2005 [http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=7&year=2005&vol=5&issue=5/6]
* Sarkar, S. [http://www.inderscience.com/search/index.php?action=record&rec_id=6994&prevQuery=&ps=10&m=or Innovation and Market Structures: An Integrated Approach] . New York, Springer, 2007.

External links

* [http://www.cefage.uevora.pt/index1.htm CEFAGE Home Page]
* [http://www.dges.uevora.pt/ Department of Management, Evora University] Home Page