Dr. Mir Dost is a Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management from School of Management of Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) Thailand. Currently, Dr. Dost is serving as an Assistant Prof. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, Head of the Department of Finance and Management Sciences (F&MS) and Director for the Office of the Office of Research, Innovation and Commercialization (ORIC) at Lasbela University of Agriculture, Water and Marine Sciences (LUAWMS) Uthal, Baluchistan.
Dr. Dost’s Ph.D. dissertation measures that how different types of knowledge (Intellectual Capital – human, social and intellectual capital) influence process innovation generation and adoption to produce sustainable products. Dr. Dost completed his MBA in entrepreneurship from AIT-Thailand. His master’s research thesis investigated the enablers and barriers of green entrepreneurship by focusing the organic agriculture practices in Pakistan.
Dr. Dost has several publications in the international journals and a few paper presentations in top tier conferences. Some of his research papers are published and others are in under-review. His very recent paper investigates that how intellectual capital – human, social and organizational capital - of a firm facilitates firms to generate and adopt innovations.
Dr. Dost also presented his work at top-tier conferences- International Society of Professional Innovation Managers (ISPIM) in March 2017 at Toronto Canada. And another in the Journal of Academy of Management in the United States of America. His another paper is accepted in a conference organized by the Journal of California Management Review in the US in 2015. The government of Balochistan and Voice of Balochistan invited Dr. Dost as a “Guest Speaker” during the International Seminar on “Capacity Building of the Youth of Balochistan” at Quetta. Besides this, Dr. Dost also serves as a motivational speaker and mentor for the Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamps, one of them t be held on 2nd to 5th July 2018 at Bangkok, Thailand.