Returnee Entrepreneurs and Tech Startups in India

About this book

Returnee entrepreneurship is gaining traction globally. Returnee entrepreneurs tend to possess significant knowledge capital, international social capital, financial capital, managerial, and entrepreneurial skills, among others, relative to domestic entrepreneurs. Therefore, they can contribute to bridging the knowledge gap, technology gap, skill gap, and entrepreneurship gap that may exist between home and host economies. As a result, they can more effectively contribute to the acceleration of economic growth and transformation of emerging economies like India and China. However, evidence of the role of returnee entrepreneurs in the Indian innovation ecosystem is very limited and fragmented. Therefore, this book is the first attempt to explore and understand comprehensively the distinctiv