Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM-K) has officially announced the award programme “IIM-K Scholars for Future 2021” as a part of its silver jubilee celebrations for early stage doctoral students (PhD) in management category from the institutes and universities ranked in the NIRF rankings.
This award programme is the brainchild of IIM-K’s current Director, Prof. Debashis Chatterjee, which invites the proposal for futuristic and innovative research on selected themes from the students pursuing PhD or an equivalent programme who have enrolled after June 2019.
The programme not only offers cash incentives of ₹1.5 lakh each to the top three research papers but will also see the winners receiving expert mentorship from the renowned faculty from IIM-K and the opportunity to publish/present their paper in a journal and top IIM-K conferences.
Over the short journey of 25 years, Prof. Chatterjee stated that the IIM-K had been able to carve out a niche for itself as an institute of academic excellence. The remarkably innovative initiatives like “IIM-K Scholars for Future 2021” had established the benchmark for other institutions in the country, he added.
For this award programme, Prof Chatterjee said that the IIM-K was inviting futuristic research proposals with deep contextual reference to India. It would be flexible to any business theme other than in the list which addresses key priorities of India with exceptional research potential.
Eligibility Criteria
Candidates, who are currently pursuing full-time PhD are eligible to apply for the IIMK award programme. The total cash prize for the award programmes is ₹4.5 lakh.
The last date to submit the entries for the award is till July 15 and the winners will be announced in the week leading to IIM-K’s Foundation Day celebration on August 21, 2021. Interested candidates can find the complete details of the eligibility criteria, themes of submission on: https://iimk.ac.in/futurescholars/register/login.php.
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