High-tech Internet Start-ups in India

Technology entrepreneurship has been receiving growing importance as an effective instrument to promote national economic growth, both from empirical researchers and policymakers. India has emerged as the third largest base for high-tech start-ups in the world. Although there is a surge in start-up creation rates in India, little is known about factors required for these start-ups to survive, sustain and grow into large enterprises, particularly in the context of emerging economies like India. This book reviews the entrepreneurial, firm-specific and external environment-specific aspects that influence the key lifecycle stages of high-tech start-ups and identifies the key factors that influence each milestone. Existing literature in this subject has limited studies on the structure of the high-tech start-up sector and processes and strategies adapted by them. This book aims to address this gap, analyzing case studies and empirical data, and provides a multidimensional framework to understand the life cycle of high-tech start-ups.

List of tables; List of figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Objectives, scope, and methodology; 3. High-tech start-ups in India: profile and characteristics; 4. Emergence of high-tech start-ups; 5. Survival of high-tech start-ups; 6. Growth of high-tech start-ups; 7. Factors influencing life cycle of high-tech start-ups; 8. Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

H. S. Krishna is Research Associate in the Department of Management Studies at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He has published in the Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy, the South Asian Journal of Management, and the Journal of Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship. His research interests are corporate strategy, high-tech start-ups, transnational entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial learning.