Er. Mamta Bhardwaj, is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) at STPI-Neuron Centre of Entrepreneurship (CoE) at Mohali, Punjab. Previously she worked as a Sr. Scientist-C at Department of Science and Technology (DST) funded, Centre for Policy Research (CPR) at Panjab University, Chandigarh for more than 8 years. She has been working in the domain of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), evidence-based S&T Policy research, and science diplomacy of India and other counterparts. She has experience of more than 14 years as in industry, engineering institute and S&T policy research. She is a graduate in Engineering with the specialization in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), New Delhi and a postgraduate in the same field from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha university (GGSIPU), New Delhi. She also has certifications in various courses on IPR, science diplomacy and data management offered by organizations like World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva; Ministry of Education, New Delhi; Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi; American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), USA; The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Italy and Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy. She is credited with many research publications in national and international journals and co-authored three books on IPR and translational research ecosystem.