Dr. Rohit Trivedi undertakes Post doctoral research work with SAARC and AMDISA

It is my great honor to take this huge opportunity to write about Dr. Rohit Trivedi, who is working as Asst. professor at VMPIM. The work done by Dr. Trivedi and his achievements are indeed worth taking pride for our institute. What I am going to discuss now may not be of Interest for any common man, but we being management graduates should learn to appreciate the work done by Dr. Trivedi.

Dr. Trivedi is working as Asst. Professor at VMPIM and his areas of interest are Entrepreneurship, BRM and Marketing Mgmt. As part of the post doctoral research work, Dr. Trivedi has undertaken an international research work in collaboration with SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) and AMDISA (Association for Management Development Institutions of South Asia), under which he will be studying the entrepreneurship intentions and constraints for management students and also the lecturers’ and professors’ inclinement towards Entrepreneurship, for countries like India, Singapore and Malaysia. At this point of time, I cannot resist myself to share with you that Dr. Trivedi is the only Indian to receive this Post Doctoral fellowship. After the two doctors of IIM-A, Dr. Trivedi is the 3^rd academician Entrepreneur from Gujarat, the first from non IIM-A background, and the 7^th from all over India to get such work for the first time during last 10 years, the remaining all being non- Indians.

Adding colors to his achievements, Dr. Trivedi recently crossed another milestone when he won the Best Research Paper and Best Researcher Award in 8th International Entrepreneurship Forum organized by University of Essex, UK and European Commission at MICA, Ahmedabad. Dr. Trivedi won the first prize among 108 researchers from 15 countries worldwide like India, Iran, USA, Russia, SA, China & Pakistan.

Dr. Rohit Trivedi is also working for his upcoming project for Incubator study in China which he will be undertaking probably in 2010. We are indeed very proud to have Dr. Rohit Trivedi associated with our Institute. He is truly a GEM of our Institute. After his joining this institute, we have started understanding the importance of research in the life of a management graduate. He has indeed made a difference to the institute.

We wish him all the best for his overseas tour for his research work.