Springer Indian Entrepreneurship: A Nation Evolving (Entrepreneurship and Development in South Asia: Longitudinal Narratives)

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.  From the Back Cover 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.  About the Author 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