About the Book

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. 

Contents

The Mosaic of Indian Entrepreneurship: An Eclectic Introduction-Jay Mitra

Case 1: Sustainability as a Driver of Enterprise Creation-Renji George Amballoor

Economic Policy Making in India and the Scope of Entrepreneurship Led Development-Vijaya Gupta

Case 2: Self-efficacy and Passion-Renji George Amballoor

Art for Life: Intangible Cultural Heritage as a Tool for Entrepreneurial Development in India-Amitava Bhattacharya

Case 3: Looking Back in History for a Culture of the Future-Renji George Amballoor

From a One-Man Consultancy to a Global Business Empire Connecting Back Home: The Case of Purico Limited-Sarika Pruthi

Case 4: Adversity as Opportunity-Renji George Amballoor

Case 5: Waste Not What Entrepreneurial Endeavor Can Do-Renji George Amballoor

Technological Innovation in Public R&D Laboratories in India: Dissecting the Critical Dimensions-Santanu Roy, Jay Mitra

Case 6: Unscheduled Stops to Planned Behaviour-Renji George Amballoor

Case 7: Motivation and Self-determination for a Change-Renji George Amballoor

About the Author / Editor

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.