Saturday, 19 October 2013

Hony doctorate for IIM-A's Prof Anil Kr. Gupta (National Innovation Foundation)

Professor Anil Gupta, founder of the Honey Bee Network, was conferred Doctorate, Honoris Causa by Universidad de San Martin de Porres, Peru, on October 17, 2013.

Previously,  Prof. Gupta was conferred the Humanistic Management Lifetime Achievement Award by the Humanistic Management Network, St. Gallen, Switzerland at the 73rd Annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Orlando, USA on August 12, 2013; Doctor of Letters from Central University of Orissa on July 29, 2012; and the Hermes Award by the European Institute for Creative Strategies and Innovation, Paris in May 2012. A member of many government and corporate bodies, Prof. Gupta is also a widely published author.

Source: http://southasiainstitute.harvard.edu/event/india-changing-searching-and-supporting-innovation-insurgents/

IIMAHD-Ethical Research Network ("IIMAHD-ERNET.IN") recalls Prof Gupta's unstinting support to stamp out the plagiarism epidemic in IIMA and the immortal words in his Wall Street Journal interview of Sept. 24, 2009.

"...  but I was an intellectual and I was exploiting the ideas market.
...
WSJ: Are you saying that in social science research, credit is not given where it is due?

AKG: Yes ! Fellow scientists must of course be credited, but this is only for the formal sector. For the informal sector there is no such requirement. On the contrary, all informal sources dialogues must be kept anonymous! Research councils and academic institutions have not yet begun to share their findings with people in languages they understand. Which means 99.9% of the research is never shared back with the people from whom it is collected.

WSJ: It sounds like plagiarism of the highest order…

AKG: It is, and the tragedy is that this continues. The basic ethics of the knowledge economy is that you learnt something from somewhere, you did not get it from the air."

Source: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB125376926792036847

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