Sanjay Nadkarni
Professor of Innovation, Plekhanov University (Dubai campus)
- Innovation
- Human-Centred AI
- Academia
Editorial bio
Dr Sanjay M. Nadkarni has 30+ years across academia, industry, government and multilateral organisations – a long way of saying he has seen enough cycles of "the next thing" to be useful on the current one. His seat is Professor of Innovation at Plekhanov University's Dubai campus, with a guest professorship at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences and a co-founder role at Hoick, a sentiment-mining startup.
His working interest is where AI, open innovation and digital transformation actually meet – not in a strategy deck, but in the design and systems-thinking methods that let an organisation make a decision with AI in the loop. His scholarship and advisory work point in the same direction: small and microbusinesses deserve the same AI leverage the enterprise is getting.
Worth following if you want the academic end of the AI conversation that still touches real organisations.
Key facts
- based in
- Dubai, UAE (Indian national)
- current
- Professor of Innovation, Plekhanov University (Dubai) · Guest Professor, University of Europe for Applied Sciences · Co-Founder, Hoick
- prior
- 30+ years across academia, industry, government, multilateral organisations
- focus
- Open innovation · human-centred AI · futures / design / systems thinking · digital transformation
Featured work
Professor of Innovation, Plekhanov University (Dubai)
AI-assisted problem solving via futures, design and systems thinking.
Hoick (Co-Founder)
Sentiment-mining startup bridging academic research and product.
Advisory for governments, multilaterals and global corporations
On open innovation and AI integration frameworks.