Entrepreneurial Ecosystems for Tech Start-ups in India : Evolution, Structure and Role

Why do tech start-ups emerge rapidly in emerging economies like India? What kind of entrepreneurial ecosystems have evolved for tech start-up promotion? What is their structure? What role do they play in the nurturing of tech start-ups to the advantage of regional economies? This book examines the trend of evolving entrepreneurial ecosystems for tech start-ups in India, ascertains its structure and examines its role in the nurturing of tech start-ups over its lifecycle, to bring out its implications for Indian economy. At the outset, it traces and conceptualizes what it terms an "ideal ecosystem" for tech start-ups in the Indian context, and explores the historical evolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems in two of the six leading start-up hubs in the country, namely, Bangalore and Hyderabad. It describes the characteristics and the structure of these ecosystems as they prevailed in the two start-up hubs, and analyses the role that they play in nurturing the development of tech start-ups. Finally, this book explores the ecosystem gaps that exist in the two cities, the factors causing these gaps, and makes policy recommendations to encourage the growth of a "healthy and vibrant" entrepreneurial ecosystem for the accelerated growth of tech start-ups in these two cities in particular, to promote employment, innovation and economic growth in the country at large.

Policy makers, researchers, engineering and management students, technology and business mentors, angels, venture capitalists, and MNC executives will find the book informative, revealing and a source of valuable insights into a new, rapidly emerging entrepreneurial India.

M H Bala Subrahmanya is a Senior Professor at the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. He is an economist specializing in industrial economics and has written on a wide range of topics in his research such as: start-ups; micro firms; SMEs; large scale enterprises including TNCs; industrial R&D and technological innovations; entrepreneurship; industrial energy consumption; industrial subcontracting; and productivity and industrial performance. He has published 59 articles in a wide range of international journals and in excess of 100 articles in Indian journals.