Dr. M. H Bala Subrahmanya is currently a Senior Professor at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. His teaching specialization lies in Managerial Economics, Macroeconomics, Industrial Economics. He was a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellow at University of California, Davis, USA, from 2009-2010. He has also served as a visiting research fellow at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan from 2005-2006; and Foundation for Small & Medium Enterprise (SMEs) Development, University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom in 2000. He has acted as the principal coordinator for several research projects in the field of social sciences & supported research in areas of R&D- technology Business Incubators in India, internationalization of SMEs, technological innovations on the growth of manufacturing SMEs; among others. His research has been highly appreciated and published across Economic & Policy journals & magazines.