Suresh Bhagavatula

Professor Suresh Bhagavatula is Chairperson, Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Development at the N.S. Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL) at IIMB. His research interests are in two partly overlapping domains – entrepreneurship and social networks. In entrepreneurship, his interests are in both low and high technology firms in India. Within the social network domain, he is interested in understanding the influence of social capital on performance of entrepreneurs and teams. His research work has been published in Journal of Business Venturing (JBV), Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (ETP), Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (SEJ), and IIMB Management Review (IMR). In the past, he worked at TRDDC (Tata Research Design and Development Centre), within their mineral processing division, as a process engineer and in KVK (Krish Vigyan Kendra) Visakhapatnam as a Microenterprise coordinator.

Research

Professor Bhagavatula’s research interests are in two partly overlapping domains – Entrepreneurship and Social Networks. In Entrepreneurship, his interests are in both low and high technology firms in India. Within the Social Network domain, he is interested in understanding the influence of social capital on performance of entrepreneurs and teams. His research work has been published in the Journal of Business Venturing (JBV), Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (ETP), StrategicEntrepreneurship Journal (SEJ), and IIMB Management Review.

Service

• TRDDC (Tata Research Design and Development Centre), within their Mineral Processing division, as a Process Engineer
• KVK (Krishi Vigyan Kendra), Visakhapatnam as a Microenterprise Coordinator

Education

• PhD, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• MS, University of Flensburg, Germany
• BE, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India