Technology and entrepreneurship are often reckoned to be the twin-horses pulling national economies towards their developmental destinations. Technology based enterprises (TBEs) are specially attractive to policy-makers because of their higher potential for job creation and wealth-generation...

Studies into the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship have tended to focus on (a) the characteristics of more successful regions, knowledge spillovers and agglomerations of economic activity (Jaffe, 1993, 1998, Zucker, et al, 1998, Acs, 2002, Sorensen and Stuart, 2003, Audretsch and Feldman,...

It is often pointed out that like many areas of social science research, entrepreneurship research lacks direction for want of an appropriate paradigm. While it is true that researchers often fail to explicitly state the paradigms under which they conduct their investigations, it cannot be...

Technological innovation, although vital for sustenance of firms against fierce global competition, presents a paradox in micro-economic theory on the managerial decisions related to the financing of such innovation. In particular, budgeting decisions in R&D and innovation at the firm level do...

Technology transfer has traditionally been viewed as a ‘donor-recipient’ relationship. But in a business scenario characterized by liberalization, privatization and globalization, a new paradigm based on equal partnership is emerging. In this article we examine two contrasting case studies -...

Small firm clusters have come to occupy a significant space in the discussions on industrialisation strategies, especially in the context of less-developed regions. This paper reviews a select set of literature on European, East Asian and Indian clusters with a comparative perspective. The...

Though innovation and intrapreneurship are perhaps the only way for organizations to keep themselves vibrant and growing, large organizations with their bureaucratic systems have their inherent disabilities in promoting intrapreneurial orientation among their employees. Such disabilities are...

In about twenty years, starting in 1984, Bangalore has become the fourth best 'Global Hub of Technological Innovation', according to Business Week. This article reviews the major milestones in Bangalore's development and the interactive roles of government, universities and private...

Section 1: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Emerging Economies: Muddling through to Development -- Section 2: Entrepreneurial Ecosystem -- Chapter 2. An Empirical Analysis of the Singapore Entrepreneurship Ecosystem: A Case Study for BRIC Economies to Ponder -- Chapter 3. The Impact of Ethnicity on...

pt. 1. History, context and challenge -- pt. 2. Creating the culture : educating entrepreneurially -- pt. 3. Creating the culture : educating entrepreneurially -- pt. 4. Gearing cooperation and entrepreneurship for national growth.