The Responsible Innovation & Entrepreneurship Research Initiative is housed in the Lam Family College of Business, but relies upon the interdisciplinary expertise and generosity of scholars from various departments in the college, across the local region, country, and internationally.
Initiative Leadership
Minu Kumar is a Professor of Marketing at the LFCoB and is the Founder-Director of the Responsible Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Initiative. He also serves as the Associate Editor of the Journal of Product Innovation Management. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from the Government College of Pharmacy (Bangalore University, 1996), a Masters in Business Administration (Concentration in Pharmaceutical Marketing, 2002), and a Ph.D. in Marketing (minor: pharmaceutical marketing, 2008) from the University of Mississippi. Professor Kumar has published in journals such as the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Consumer Psychology, International Journal of Research in Marketing, and Journal of Product Innovation Management among others. He has also worked for or consulted with firms such as Barilla, SAP, Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals (Now Daiichi Sankyo), Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals, Schering Plough Pharmaceuticals (Now Merck), Medtronic, Glaxo Smithkline, among others on product design & development, sales, and marketing projects.
Chenwei Li is the Director for Engagement for the RI&E Initiative and is an Associate Professor of Management at the LFCoB. Previously, she served on the faculty of the Doermer School of Business at the Purdue University Fort Wayne for three years. Chenwei received her Ph.D. with a concentration in Organizational Behavior from the University of Alabama. Her primary research interests focus on leadership, employee voice and team creativity. Her work has been published in the management field’s premier journals such as the Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Business Ethics, among others. Chenwei received the 2020 Ascendant Scholar Award from the Western Academy of Management. She has served as an ad-hoc reviewer for management journals such as Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Management and organization review etc. Chenwei teaches Leadership and Influence Skills as well as Human Resource Management courses for MBA and undergraduate programs. She has also led leadership training workshops for managers of different levels in various companies and cultural settings.
Ian Sinapuelas is the Director of Research Programs for the RI&E initiative and is a Professor of Marketing at the LFCoB. Ian was awarded a Ph.D. in marketing from Purdue University in May 2007. Professor Sinapuelas has published in journals such as the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Consumer Marketing, and Journal of Product and Brand Management among others. His teaching experience includes MBA-level marketing management at the German International Graduate School of Management and Administration in Hanover, Germany, as well as several business courses during his time at Purdue.
Partners
RI&E collaborates with companies, institutes, and faculty from various parts of the world to bring its programmatic elements to life. A few examples (not exhaustive) are listed: Kiel Institute for Responsible Innovation, Meta, Wageningen University & Research, Salesforce, Macau University of Science and Technology, Stanford University, Babson College, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, University of New South Wales, University of Warwick, University of Washington, Google, Mays Business School (Texas A&M), Open AI, Eindhoven University, EADA Business School, University of Tennessee (Knoxville), University Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Hong Kong Baptist University among others.