Expertise

Dr. Smita Srinivas and her teams work to address conceptual and practical bottlenecks that stall everyday economic development progress. She has worked with global foundations, global Fortune 500 firms, several global councils on sustainability or health. She has been a worldwide keynote speaker on different aspects of economics.

Economic Theory, Policy Design and Realistic Development frame the partnerships to focus on complex issues and high social impact areas. The research often uses institutional and evolutionary economics insights and methods to study complexity in economies and industrial sectors.

Technological Change and Economic development
o Industrial Policy, Companies and Policy Priorities, Standardization and Regulation of Industries.
o Innovation, Science and Knowledge
o Complexity in Technological Capabilities, Indicators, and Industrial policy

The Industrial Foundations of Health
o Technological Capabilities in the Health industry
(pharma, biotech, vaccines, medical devices and diagnostics)
o Knowledge, Learning, and Innovation in Health (Traditional and Mainstream)
o Integrating Health, Industry, Ecology (HIE) and alternate knowledge systems
o Health systems design, preventative health, primary health care systems
o Private sector capabilities, empanelment in health insurance systems
o Food and agriculture in Health Systems.

Industrial organization and institutions and organisations
o Informal economy and Social Protection
o Social protection and health technologies
o Innovation and Skills, new platforms
o Industrial history and industrial welfare systems

The Future of Economics
o Higher Education program design
o Disciplinary reform and gains from institutional and evolutionary economics
o Heuristics
o Economics Systems of Reason and Logic with Indian Knowledge Systems