Entrepreneurship in the BRICS: Economic Development and Growth in the Post-Pandemic World

Entrepreneurship is a tool of innovation promotion that supports sound economic environments as it stimulates economic growth and development. The BRICS nations, i.e., Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, are a group of emerging countries comprising the highest developmental block of the emerging nations. It is imperative to assess the entrepreneurship policies, strategies, and promotional programmes and their implications for, among others, entrepreneurship funding, economic growth, and employment trends. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the entrepreneurship environment and equally steered state funding priorities away from entrepreneurship development support worldwide. This research book assesses the effect that COVID-19 has had on government funding priority, policy interventions and resultant implications on the entrepreneurship environment, economic growth and employment with a focus on BRICS. Readers will gain insight into what entrepreneurship looks like in the BRICS context and how it has been affected by COVID-19, indicating how the BRICS nations are likely to move forward to further strengthen entrepreneurship. This edited volume will be of interest to researchers, academics, practitioners, and advanced students in the fields of entrepreneurship, innovation, strategy, international relations, multilateralism, and economic development.

Ndivhuho Tshikovhi is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Faculty of Management Sciences, Durban University of Technology (DUT) in South Africa. He is also the project manager for the BRICS Research Institute at DUT.

Fulufhelo Netswera is the executive dean: Faculty of Management Sciences at the Durban University of Technology (DUT). He is also the head of the BRICS Research Institute at DUT.

Ravinder Rena is an adjunct professor of economics at the Faculty of Management Sciences at the Durban University of Technology (DUT).