Anurag Goyal, Member, Competition Commission of India (CCI) and faculty members of IIM Raipur held discussions on various facets of competition, IIM officials informed here on Friday.
The discussion between the faculty of IIM Raipur and Anurag Goyal, Member, CCI was focused on how the country could benefit by leveraging on each other’s strengths. While CCI has a huge repository of data, information and cases, the IIM Raipur faculty members are extremely skilled researchers.
Dr BS Sahay, Director, IIM Raipur suggested that the country needs to assess its competitiveness both within the states and among other countries.
He suggested that this could be done by creating an Indian competitiveness report. Such a report shall assess the states’ competitiveness on factors like Infrastructure, Institutions, macro and micro economic environment, education and training, healthcare, market efficiencies, technological development, availability of funds and resources, innovation, etc. It was agreed that such a report shall be an annual feature from IIM Raipur.
A possibility of the faculty members and fellow students of IIM Raipur using this data to write cases, work on competition – related research that has both academic and practical implications was discussed in great detail. Areas of collaboration like research on competition and mergers and acquisition; agri-business; sectorial; consumer behavior; etc. were discussed at length.
IIM Raipur’s belief in not just knowledge creation but also knowledge dissemination lead the two bodies to discuss possibilities of conducting joint conferences centered around the theme of competition. Although no decision was taken in this regard, but both institutions agreed that in principle this was a good idea.
Avenues for funding of research projects on the theme of ‘Competition’ were also discussed. A possibility of CCI instituting a Chair in IIM Raipur was also discussed, though no decision was taken in this regard as yet.