Indian Entrepreneurship

This book provides cutting-edge insights into factors, issues and instruments that foster entrepreneurship and innovation in its various guises ,in India the fastest growing economy in the world today. India's future is predicated upon the capabilities of its people and organisations to identify and develop new products, services, types of organization and new forms of economic and social engagement with producers, consumers, institutions,and her citizens.

The book addresses four critical factors - people, technology, organisations and society. It evaluates how Indian entrepreneurs utilise their range of key skills and entrepreneurial competencies in local and transnational environments. It explores how software and technological development, and the reorganisation of the public research infrastructure, are leading to a transformation of our organisations and our capacity to develop new ones. Further, it examines the role of socially-unity-driven entrepreneurship and community-based innovation centred round the arts and culture in urban and rural settings, in promoting socially oriented transformation. The book aims to offer a small but rich portfolio of India's unique entrepreneurial capabilities.

Highlights entrepreneurship and innovation in India Analyses how policy actions and instruments offer conditions that can foster or hinder entrepreneurship Provides a fresh Indian perspective that accommodates but also questions typical thought constructs and frameworks borrowed from the West

Autorentext
Jay Mitra is a Professor of Business Enterprise and Innovation at Essex Business School, University of Essex. He is also a Visiting Professor at Leuphana University in Luneburg Germany, and Bayero University in Kano, Nigeria. He has held similar positions at the School of Management, Fudan University, and the School of Public Policy at Jilin University, both in China, at Bologna University, Italy and at the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, India. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the UK and has acted as a Scientific Adviser to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), as the Head of the Scientific Committee on Entrepreneurship for the OECD's Centre for Entrepreneurship and the LEED (Local Economic and Employment) Programme. Prof. Mitra also leads the International Entrepreneurship Forum (IEF), a unique network and forum for researchers, policy-makers and business practitioners working on entrepreneurship, innovation and regional development issues. The IEF has organised 18 international and refereed conferences on entrepreneurship, innovation a and His current research focuses on entrepreneurship and human and social capital, female entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship and innovation, economic and social development in countries around the world, under his leadership. He is editor of the Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies, published by Sage, and a member of editorial boards of several refereed international journals. He has written widely and published in international refereed journal articles, book chapters and business magazine articles, on the subject of entrepreneurship, innovation economic and social development for refereed journals and business magazines. His most recent books are 'Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Development' , 2nd ed (2020), published by Routledge, The Business of Innovation (2017), published by Sage, 'Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Exchange, (2015), both published by Routledge.

Inhalt
Introduction: An Overview of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in India: Crisis or Opportunity?.- India's Entrepreneurs: The Dynamics of Cultural and Spatial Diversity.- Economic Policy Making in India and the Scope of Entrepreneurship led Development.- Regional Diversity and Economic Development through Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation.- Corporate Social Responsibility and Entrepreneurial Outcomes.- R&D and Innovation in India.- Entrepreneurial Organisations in India: The Large, Medium and Small Firm Nexus.- Female Entrepreneurs and Technology Development in India.- Indian Entrepreneurship in the Global Context.- Concluding Observations- The Future of Indian Entrepreneurship.