Anamika believe innovation is meaningful only when it is inclusive—when it uplifts rural women, small farmers, artisans and grassroots problem-solvers who innovate with courage but remain unseen by formal systems.
Since 2009, She has worked at the intersection of grassroots innovation, rural entrepreneurship, agrobiodiversity conservation and climate resilience, connecting local ingenuity to enterprise, livelihoods and policy influence. Her work is driven by the belief that communities are not just beneficiaries—they are knowledge holders and co-creators of solutions.
She serve as CEO – Gujarat Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network (GIAN) and Co-Director – GIAN-ASTRE, where she helped establish innovation pipelines that identified, validated and scaled grassroots technologies for livelihood generation. She continue to contribute to the Honey Bee Network and serve as Associate Editor of the Honey Bee Journal, which documents traditional knowledge and innovations from India and beyond.
She is also a Visiting Faculty at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad, teaching and mentoring on innovation and development. She has also been involved in training UNDP Accelerator Labs worldwide in Solutions Mapping along with Prof. Anil Gupta, and have worked on assignments with UN ESCAP, UNESCO and UNICEF.
Academic & Research Focus
- She completed her doctoral research at IIT-ISM Dhanbad on farm-level creativity and indigenous agro-biodiversity practices for climate resilience.
- Her research interests include:
- Grassroots and social innovation
- Women-led bioenterprises, resilience and knowledge systems
- Community enterprise and inclusive development
- Innovation diffusion and adaptation across geographies
Focus Areas
- Grassroots & Inclusive Innovation
- Bioentrepreneurship
- Rural Livelihood Models
- Women Entrepreneurship
- Agrobiodiversity & Climate Resilience
- Innovation for Development
- CSR & Impact Partnerships
Purpose
Her mission is to strengthen India’s inclusive innovation ecosystem by bridging communities, science, enterprise and policy—ensuring dignity, recognition, and opportunity reach grassroots innovators.
