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.