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Soumodip Sarkar is a noted Indian economist and university professor, a leader in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation in management. He is associate professor of the Department of Management, University of Évora, Évora, Portugal.

Dr. Sarkar did his graduate studies at Northeastern University, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA 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 he is also a visiting professor with its Asia Center since 2006.

Presently Dr. Sarkar is director of the Centro de Estudos e Formação Avançada em Gestão (Center of Studies and Advanced Education in Management) 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 competitivity. 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 Sarkar Integrated Model for Innovation (SIMI), which has been applied successfully to more than a thousand companies, and which is now being marketed in Portugal and Brazil as an advanced solution for management diagnosis.

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 Competitivity, with his paper “A Rose in Another Name: An Integrated Model of Outsourcing”.

• 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 [1]
  • Sarkar, S. Innovation and market structures: an integrated approach

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