Dr. Rajnish Tiwari is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Technology and Innovation Management of Hamburg University of Technology in Germany. He leads the research program Global Innovation and has co-founded the Center for Frugal Innovation. Rajnish has advised Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) concerning ＂new global innovation pathways＂ and has led projects to investigate potentials of ＂affordable excellence＂ in industrialized economies in sectors such as food industry, automotive and renewable energies. He is an alumnus of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science and has been a visiting fellow at several universities in Australia, India, Japan and the USA. He has co-authored/edited seven books and published numerous articles and book chapters.