Kumar Aashish is a Doctoral Fellow of Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII) Ahmedabad and currently serving Jaipuria Institute of Management Noida Campus. Prior to this he was with Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE), Hyderabad, as Assistant Professor in the area of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Incubation. Before doctoral studies, he was associated with AKS University, MP as Assistant Professor and served as the founding coordinator of 'Center for Entrepreneurship and Skill Development (September 2012 to July 2014). His doctoral thesis titled "Impact of Business Incubators on Start-up's Growth" was well appreciated by policymakers and had great sync with the first-ever Student Start-up Policy introduced by AICTE in 2016, Institution Innovation Council initiative by MoE (the then MHRD) and training/incubation of incubators initiated by Atal Innovation Mission. During his doctoral program, he was actively associated with Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) – India Team and a high rated resource person for International executive training programs sponsored by the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. He is specialized in 'Experiential Entrepreneurship Education' and 'Case-based teaching'. Under this, he practices the "Stimulate, Educate and Incubate" mechanism of Ideal Start-up Education Pedagogy (iSEP) being developed in one of his research paper. His research papers are featured in ABDC A and B category journals. More than half a dozen papers are under Review or work-in-progress targeted to get published in similar categories. He teaches the 'Start-up and Entrepreneurship' core course and leads the Entrepreneurship area at IPE. He offers courses on Business Model Innovation, Corporate Innovation; Family Business; and Marketing Engineering and Analytics. He is actively involved with doctoral students of several business schools, and reviewers of ABDC listed journals like Internet Research, International Journal of Bank Marketing, and Journal of Entrepreneurship. Currently, he is serving as a project steering committee member of DST sponsored major research project and board of studies member of Swarrnim Startup & Innovation University, Gujarat. He believes scientific training for innovation and entrepreneurship changes the individual's worldview. The scholarly debate to theorize entrepreneurship can be divided into Schumpeter versus Kirzner school but choosing entrepreneurship as a career and building an entrepreneurial career are the two faces of the same coin.