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Dr. Kotipalli Priyatej

Dr. Kotipalli Priyatej

Associate Professor

B.H.M (University of Mumbai);

MBA (JNTU, Hyderabad);

Ph.D. (Erasmus University, Netherlands)

Dr. Priyatej Kotipalli is an Associate Professor at Jindal Global Business School. Before JGU he was the Head, of the Kumaraguru Centre for Indian Family Business. He holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Economics from Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. His research interest is in the economics of the Intangibles of culture and focuses on entrepreneurship in the creative and knowledge economy.

He has served on the board of various cultural/social organizations in India, the Netherlands, and Italy as well as a short-term consultant for the World Bank. He is also a member of the crafts council of Telangana.  His current research is clustered on the cross-section of, values, culture, and family business with a focus on the creation of shared goods and commons.

  • 2014    ERmecc lunch Seminar, Erasmus University, Rotterdam the Netherlands, 9th April. Paper Presentation: Economics of Crafts in India.
  • 2012     Association of Cultural Economists International (ACEI) Annual Meeting, Kyoto, Japan, June 21-24.  Paper Presentation: Indian policy for crafts.
  • 2004 The Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Utsav Asiatika, Defining Heritage, November 19th Paper Presentation: Urban Heritage in Navi Mumbai. 
  • 2017 (December ) , Making space for value in the commerce of culture in Culture , Innovation  and    the Economy edited by Biljana Mickov and James Doyle , Routledge , London , U.K
  • 2108 (September) , The values of craft: Towards an economics of the common good , The Garland Magazine ,  World Crafts Council – Australia, a national entity of the World Crafts Council – Asia Pacific.
  • 2019 (June ), A cultural economic Analysis of craft , edited Anna Mignosa and Priyatej Kotipalli by Palgrave , London , U.K
  • 2021 (TBD) Economics of shared and common goods, craft, and sustainability, Routledge Handbook of Craft and Sustainability in India by Routledge 
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  • 22 /03/2011 Workshop:   Symposium financing the arts Rotterdam the Netherlands:  Part of the core team in organizing a worship to collect ideas for creative financing of the arts in the European context. The workshop resulted in the publication of a book titled “pak aan”.
  • 04/04/2011- 14/04/2011 Workshop:  Value of Culture, Collaborative program, Jinja, Uganda: Part of the core teaching team   that organized and delivered this eleven-day intensive program for west Africa.  
  • 01/08/2012 – 05/08/2012 Workshop (Five days): Value of Culture, Amsterdam (Cultural Industries and Creative economy)The Netherland:  Part of the core teaching team to deliver this program. 
  • 01/09/2012 -05/08/2012 Workshop (Five days): Value of Culture, Amsterdam (Cultural Heritage and Museums), The Netherlands. part of the core teaching   team to deliver this program.
  • 22/11/2012 – 23/11/2012 Workshop (Two days): Public, Private Partnership in Mutual Heritage, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Part of the expert group that worked with various heritage organizations to come up with innovative new plans for public private partnerships working towards the Dutch government’s policy for Mutual heritage in Sri Lanka.  
  • 15/12/2012 – 19/12.2012 Workshop:  Value of Culture, Collaborative program, Mumbai, India. Principle team member in organizing and delivering first of its kind program for cultural economics in South Asia with the Mohile Parekh Center. 
  • 20/08/2013 – 24/08/2013 Workshop: Value of Culture, Amsterdam, Part of the core teaching team to deliver this program. 
  • 13/02/2014 Masters Class (1 day): The Economics of Heritage: Design, innovation and crafts resource center, CEPT UniversityAhmedabad, Gujrat, India. Delivered a one-day research seminar to the master’s students of CEPT University
  • 20/08/2014 – 24/08/2014 Workshop: Value of Culture, Amsterdam the Netherlands: Part of the core teaching team to deliver this program. 
  • 12/03/2015 lecture (1 day) Economics of Craft:  National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, Gujrat, India:  Delivered a one-day research seminar to the Textile Deign Students of NID. 
  • 16/03/2015 Public Lecture: The Economics of Arts and Culture:  Department of Fine Arts, M.S University, Vadodara, Gujrat, India 
  • 15/01/ 2016 – 19/01/2016: Masters course (5 days): National Institute of Design (NID), developed a five-credit elective course for the master’s students at NID and delivered the same as part of their Science and liberal arts program. 
  • 05/01/2016: Masters class: Art think South Asia, Value, Culture and Economics, Khoj , New Delhi , India
  • 23/08/2016 – 27 /08/2016 Workshop: Value of Culture, Amsterdam, Part of the core teaching team to deliver this program
  • 01/02/2018 – 02/02/2018 International Symposium, The values of craft: Crafts as Intangible Cultural heritage, panel discussion on   policies for crafts : Are there common elements   
  • 04/03/2019 -15/03/2019, Module for Bachelors of Textiles students at National Institute of Design , Ahmadabad , India , Titled The economics of  crafts :  Business models and Utopias
  • 21/06/2019, IIAS Lunch LectureValues of craft :  The Indian Case , Leiden  , The Netherlands
  •  23/08/2019, Lecture and Book Launch,  Values of craft :  The Indian Case , Artisans , Mumbai ,  India
  • 29/09/2019 – 30/09/2019 ,  Two day workshop , The economics of  crafts :  Business models and Utopias ,  School of Planning and Architecture ,  Bhopal,  India 
  • 22/02/2021 – One day workshop , The economics of  crafts :  Business models and Utopias ,  School of Planning and Architecture ,  Bhopal,  India 
  • 17/07/2021 – e-SYMPOSIUM on INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE for sustainable management of HISTORIC TOWNS in South Asia: Theory to Practice. Expert panel member session 4 under ‘Role of ICH in heritage economics of historic towns’.