Based at the heart of the University of Cambridge, our Centre brings together innovators via events, training, digital platforms, and other immersive and inspiring programmes.
Besides Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, we have hosted other luminaries such as Nandan Nilekani, talking about his book Imagining India: Key Challenges facing India.
Rather than operating as an academic ivory tower, the Centre for India and Global Business is actively engaged in initiatives to realise our vision of being a global innovation platform.
We seek to bring together the best innovators from India and the world to create solutions for a diverse and prosperous world.
Upcoming events and programmes
The India Stack Jugaad
Dates to be finalised
A 2-day prototyping workshop exploring how digital public goods and digital public infrastructure can provide solutions for India and the world.
The Yorway dialogues
Dates to be finalised
Exploring how the Norway model (and other global best practices) can be adapted to prevent resource curse and safeguard intergenerational equity in the context of India and the world’s natural resources.
Cambridge Innovation Hub for Prosperity
Bridging the Gap between Governments and Businesses for Innovation and Growth
The Innovation Hub for Prosperity operates under our Centre. We facilitate collaborations between high-impact companies and government champions to promote prosperity in low and middle-income countries, with a focus on potential high social impact projects such as open-source digital infrastructure for IDs, payments, and data. Our goal is to accelerate these collaborations from ideation to implementation, ensuring tangible results.
The work of the Cambridge Innovation Hub for Prosperity is based on 2 key premises:
- An ‘honest broker’ has the potential to substantially facilitate partnerships between governments and the private sector
- Key investments in low and middle income countries have transformative potential as they start changing business and political practices. For example, investments of a global best practice ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) forestry company, “Uber” for tractors, or supporting adoption of open software digital infrastructure.
Our “Brokering Trust to Accelerate Digital Innovations” paper explains how to facilitate collaborations to unleash innovation and prosperity gains. The model relies on the interplay of 3 players and key criteria for selecting pilots for collaboration.
Get involved with the Cambridge Innovation Hub for Prosperity.
Highlighted past events
Learn more about and access resources from some of the Centre for India & Global Business’s major events.
Other previous events
| Jan 2011 | The Road Less Travelled: Perspectives on What You Do, How You Operate & Where You Live Anthony Hayward, Entrepreneur |
| Nov 2010 | Tata ISES Information Event The Centre for India & Global Business welcomed those final year students interested in a Summer 2011 Tata ISES Internship to an event on 29 November 2010, which took place at Cambridge Judge Business School. This year’s student interns spoke about their experiences in India in the summer of 2010. Find out more about this event on the Tata Crucible UK website |
| Nov 2010 | Tata Crucible – The Campus Quiz 2010 The Tata Crucible brought together the sharpest young minds to take on the heat of a tough business quiz at the 3rd Annual Campus Quiz. The winning team, who received a cash prize of £4,000, get the opportunity of a summer internship with a Tata company (as per normal terms and subject to suitability), and a place at the international finals in India. Find out more about this event on the Tata Crucible website |
| Jun 2010 | The Rise of Multinationals from Emerging Markets: The Case of Tata Motors The Centre for India & Global Business welcomed Ravi Kant, CEO of Tata Motors, to Cambridge Judge Business School as part of the School’s Alumni Grand Reunion Weekend. |
| May 2010 | Whose Merit? Whose Justice? Forging Social (In)equality in Global India Professor Ananya Mukherjee-Reed, York University, Toronto |
| Feb 2010 | The Rise of the Indian Premier League Professor Stefan Szymanski, Cass Business School |
| Feb 2010 | Unlocking the Home Entertainment Potential in India Harish Dayani, Moser Baer Entertainment |
| Dec 2009 | Selling Solar Damian Miller, Orb Energy |
| Nov 2009 | Dancing with Gorillas: Exploring SME’s Local Links with MNCs Shameen Prasthantham, University of Glasgow |
| Nov 2009 | Tata International Social Enterprise Scheme (TISES) Alka Talwar, Tata Chemicals |
| Nov 2009 | Leading Wisely: Wisdom, Perspectives, Principles and Practices for 21st Century Leadership Prasad Kaipa, Indian School of Business |
| Nov 2009 | Information for Action in Indian Public Health Systems Professor Geoff Walsham, Cambridge Judge Business School |
| Nov 2009 | The Future of the Indian IT Industry Sudin Apte, Forrester Research |
| Sep 2009 | Unleashing India’s Democracy: The Power of Public Accountability Jai Desai, Universal Consulting India |
| May 2009 | Issues Affecting India’s Socio-economic Development Rahul Bose, Bollywood Actor |
| Apr 2009 | Imagining India: Key Challenges facing India Nandan Nilekani, Unique Identification Authority of India, Co-Founder of Infosys |
| Mar 2009 | The Role of Science and Technology in Driving Socio-economic Development Craig Mundie, Microsoft |
| Mar 2009 | Leadership in Recession: Fostering a Culture of Innovation Professor Jaideep Prabhu, Centre for India & Global Business Download slides (pdf, 994KB) |
| Mar 2009 | Boosting India’s Global Advantage through University-Industry Collaboration Professor Jaideep Prabhu, Centre for India & Global Business Download slides (pdf, 1.76MB) |
| Mar 2009 | India as a Global R&D Hub: Myth or Reality? Professor Jaideep Prabhu, Centre for India & Global Business Download slides (pdf, 516KB) |