FACULTY
Dr. Lina Sonne Vyas is Associate Professor - Entrepreneurship at Flame University.
Dr. Sonne Vyas was previously Associate Professor at O.P. Jindal Global University. Before that she set up and ran social innovation advisory Inblick Innovation in Mumbai, built a research portfolio at research and advisory group Okapi, co-led research at Intellecap Group, and was Assistant Professor at Azim Premji University.
Dr. Sonne Vyas holds a PhD in Economics of Innovation from UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University, Netherlands; an MSc in Business Economics from City, University of London; and a PG Diploma in Modern & Contemporary Indian Art History from the Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai.
Her teaching and research areas include social innovation and entrepreneurship; entrepreneurial ecosystems; digitisation, society and inclusion; and entrepreneurship in arts + culture.
Publications:
- Duvendack, M.; Sonne, L.; Garikipati, S. (2023) Gender Inclusivity of India’s Digital Financial Revolution for Attainment of SDGs: Macro Achievements and the Micro Experiences of Targeted Initiatives. Eur J Dev Res (2023). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-023-00585-x
- Sonne, L. (2023 forthcoming). Social Networks in Social Innovation. Book Chapter in Encyclopaedia of Social Innovation. Ed. Howaldt, J. and Kaletka C. Edward, Elgar Publishing.
- Duvendack, M. & Sonne, L. (2021) Responding to the Multi-Faceted COVID-19 Crisis: The Case of Mumbai, India. Progress in Development Studies.
- Sonne, L. (2015) The Usefulness of Networks: a Study of Social Innovation in India. Book Chapter in NESTA (2015), Social Frontiers, London, Palgrave Macmillan.
- Sonne, L. (2014). Supporting Rural Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Beyond Microfinance. Book Chapter in Development Promise of Indian Microfinance: A Critical Reader. Ed. Nair, T. New Delhi, Routledge.
- Sonne, L. (2011). Innovation in Finance to Finance Inclusive Innovation in India, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2011.06.008.
- Fu, X., Soete, L., Sonne, L. (2010). Science, Technology and Development: Emerging concepts and visions. Book Chapter in The Rise of Technological Power in the South. Ed. Fu, X. and L. Soete, L. Oxford, Oxford University Press.