K. J. Joseph Gulati Institute for Finance and Taxation (GIFT), Thiruvananthapuram, India

K.J. Joseph is the Ministry of Commerce Chair Professor at Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum. He is also the Vice-President of Globelics and the Editor-in-Chief of Innovation and Development, published by Taylor and Francis. Professor Joseph also holds the position of expert in innovation studies in the Tianjin University of Finance and Economics appointed under the Tianjin Program of Recruitment of Global Experts. Earlier positions that he held include visiting senior fellow at Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi, and visiting professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University and consultant to United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). As a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, he undertook research on technology licensing in India under the supervision of Robert Evenson at Yale University and published jointly with him. Apart from over 80 research papers, he has the following books to his credit: Industry under Economic Liberalization: The Case of Indian Electronics (Sage Publications); Information Technology, Innovation System and Trade Regime in Developing Countries: India and the ASEAN (Palgrave Macmillan); Export Competitiveness of Knowledge Intensive Industries, edited with Nagesh Kumar (Oxford University Press) and the Handbook on Innovation Systems in Developing Countries (Edward Elgar) edited with B.A. Lundvall, Cristina Chaminade and Jan Vang.