Indian Research Scholars Association Organizing a distinguished Lecture on The Quest for Paradigm and Mind-Set Shift from the Military Industrial Complex to the Humanitary Life Saviour Complex

Indian Research Scholars Association Organizing a distinguished Lecture on The Quest for Paradigm and Mind-Set Shift from the Military Industrial Complex to the Humanitary Life Saviour Complex

30 March 2025

Invited Guest and Speaker: Prof. Mammo Muchie, Professor, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa & Chief Editor, African Journal on Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, Taylor & Francis, Scopus index

Brief About the Speaker: Professor Muchie holds a DPhil in Science, Technology, and Innovation for Development (STI4D) from the University of Sussex. He is currently a DST/NRF Research Professor of Innovation Studies at the Institute of Economics Research on Innovation (IERI) at Tshwane University of Technology. He is also an NRF-rated Research Professor. He is a fellow of the South African Academy of Sciences and the African Academy of Sciences. He is currently an adjunct professor at the Adama Science and Technology University, Ethiopia. He has been a senior research associate at the SLPMTD program and now has also become a Senior Research Associate at the TMCD Centre of Oxford University, collaborating with researchers on DILIC and the potential new research area of Africa-China industrial high-technology sectors. He has held various positions, among which include the Director of the Research Programme on Civil Society and African Integration at the then University of Kwa Zulu-Natal, Honorary Professor at Jiaxing University in China, Assistant Professor at Amsterdam University, Visiting Professor at Carlton College, USA, Principal Lecturer at Middlesex University, Professor at Aalborg University and part-time Lecturer at Cambridge University. He was one of the founding members of the Globelics initiative to start the new relationship between Northern and Southern researchers by focusing research on the challenges of building African innovation systems. Thus, Africa has been put first in highlighting the global foundation of a new field of Innovation and Development. (www.globelics.org). He is a scientific Board member of Globelics and the Globelics Academy. He is the founder and Chief Editor of the African Journal on Science, Technology, Innovation and Development that has been founded in 2009. (www.ajstid.com). He is also the editor of the Globelics Journal of Innovation and Development. He helped to found first the African Globelics Doctoral Academy that has also been founded in 2009 (http://agda.uonb.ac.ke) and AfricaLics (www.Africalics.org). He is part of the founding scientific board member of the network that connects North Africa with the Middle East and southern Europe (www.medalics.org). Perhaps one of the most significant contributions to promoting the emerging field of innovation studies in Africa was the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI). The first chair on innovation studies supported by the DST/NRF in South Africa was awarded to Prof. Muchie to promote doctoral and post-doctoral research in Africa. He is also a founding scientific advisor to ´the African Solar Network (www.ansole.org). He is chairman of the Network of Ethiopian Scholars (www.nesglobal.org) and is chief editor of the open-access electronic journal The Ethiopian Electronic Journal for Research & Innovation Foresight (Ee-JRIF) (www.nesglobal.org/eejrif). He is also editor of the Globelics Journal of Innovation and Development (published by Routledge) (www.globelics.org) and the Journal of Agriculture and Economic Development, Associate Editor of the Journal of Economics and Institutions, University of Malaysia, and others. He has been appointed as a scientific and academic advisor to the local e-Governance research that involved ten African countries on ICT4D funded by IDRC and managed by CAFRAD. He has been appointed as a consultant on UNESCO’s higher education, Research, and Knowledge forum. He has served as a post-doctoral mentor in the NRF National Postdoctoral Forum. His abiding interest is to see Africa fully free and united by contributing through science, knowledge, research, and high-quality training distinguished with originality and relevance. Professor Muchie has widely published in the areas of international political economy, development economics of innovation, the making of African systems of innovation, and new technologies and development. Since 1985, he has produced over 365 publications, including books, chapters in books, and articles in internationally accredited journals and entries in institutional publications (taken from https://www.oxfordtmcd.org/person/mammo-muchie).

Organising Committee Members

Vikash Kumar, President of the Indian Research Scholars Association

Dr. Hemant Kumar, Post Doctoral Fellow, Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi

Ganeshi Lal, Research Scholar, Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi

Rimlee Kalita, Research Scholar, Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh

Mrs. Asha Rajpurohit, Assistant Professor Government College, Sailana

Manorama Kuntal Department of Political Science Jamia Millia Islamia

Sakshi Singh, Research Scholar, Faculty of Education, Banaras Hindu University, Kashi, BHU

Shubhangi Amble, Research Scholar Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Maharashtra

Aaysha Zameer, Jamia Millia Islamia New Delhi

Anurag Yadav, Research Scholar, School of Law, Pondicherry University, Puducherry

Papi Halder, Ph.D. Scholar, Lucknow University

Sunita V Yadav, Research Scholar at D.T.S.S COLLEGE Mumbai Maharashtra

Arpanpreet Kaur, Research Scholar, Central University of Punjab

Sunita V Yadav, Research Scholar at D.T.S.S COLLEGE Mumbai Maharashtra

Naina Prasad, Research Scholar, Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi Vishwavidyalaya, Wardha