IIM-A to set up fund for research on emerging economies

Premier B-school Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) today said it has initiated the process of setting up a fund which shall provide support to research on emerging economies.

"We are planning to set up a research fund that will provide support not only to the IIM-A faculty but to faculty from anywhere who is working on emerging economy," Director IIM-A Dr Samir Barua said.

He was speaking at the 4th binneial IIM-A Conference on 'Marketing in Emerging Economies', which has emerged as a global platform over the last six years to disseminate research pertaining to marketing.

"Although, the fund size is not known, but it will be a substantially large fund as its objective is to provide support to research on emerging economies from all over the world," 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.

"There is no fixed timeline for the launch of this fund, but we are expecting that it should be up and running very soon," Sinha said.