Academic Entrepreneurship for Scaling Innovation

Abstract

Academic Entrepreneurship in the last three decades has risen to greater heights. There are various reasons too. Indian's education sector has been undergoing sea changes in these decades. Every state has been opening up and there has been a plethora of institutions established. In the process, India has earned itself a reputation of a brainpower generator. Apart from this academic entrepreneurship in India has played a seminal role in not only accomplishing this status but also enabled to scale innovations. The proposed study aims to understand how academic entrepreneurship in India has been the enabler to scale innovations. It will also analyze to bring out the factors that have key impact on the growth of academic entrepreneurship. Best practices will also be delved so as to reckon the significance of academic entrepreneurship which is of both theoretical and practical importance for both developed and developing countries.