N. S. Siddharthan is an Hon. Professor at the Madras School of Economics, Chennai, India; and President of the Forum for Global Knowledge Sharing. His current research interests include technology and globalisation, international economics, multinational corporations and industrial organisation. He has published several papers in journals such as The Economic Journal, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, The Journal of Development Studies, International Business Review, Indian Economic Review, and Sankhya. He has been invited as a guest editor of special issues for journals such as Science, Technology and Society and Innovation and Development. He has also published books with publishers such as Springer, Routledge, Oxford University Press, Macmillan, Allied, Academic Foundation and New Age International Publishers. K. Narayanan is a Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India, and pursued postdoctoral research at the Institute of Advanced Studies, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan. His research interests span the areas of industrial economics, international business, socio-economic empowerment through ICT, environmental economics, the economic impacts of climate change and development economics. He has a number of publications on industrial competitiveness, technology transfer, ICT, international trade and the socio-economic impacts of climate change in various journals to his credit, including Research Policy, Journal of Regional Studies, Technovation, Oxford Development Studies, International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy and Economic and Political Weekly. His more recent publications include edited books such as “Globalisation of Indian Industries” (jointly edited with Filip De Beule) and“Globalisation of Technology” (jointly edited with N.S. Siddharthan), both published by Springer. He also guest-edited a special issue of IASSI Quarterly on the topic of “Human Capital and Development” and a special issue of Science, Technology and Society on “Agglomeration, Technology Clusters and Networks”. He is currently Honorary Secretary of the Forum for Global Knowledge Sharing, which brings together scientists, technologists and economists.
