India began the process of market liberalization that opened it to significant interactions with the world economy in 1991. In this essay, we provide an overarching view of the country's journey toward integration with the global innovation and entrepreneurship network. Major nodes in this global network have two major components that may be metaphorically referred… More »
My Notes — Entrepreneurship
Tips for Choosing Appropriate Level of Abstractions (especially for Chinese Researchers)
A lot of Chinese researchers simply want to imitate how top American journals in formulating theories without boundary conditions. This sounds like doing good science but more often its leads to superficial analyses that do not explain what is happening in China. I was asked to write a commentary on an article by Child and… More »
The role of home country demand in the internationalization of new ventures
My article with Salih Ozdemir and Deepak Sardana was just published in Research Policy. Abstract: International new ventures (INVs) have been documented to exist all around the world, but the literature is silent on the frequency of such companies in different countries. We contend that the propensity of new ventures to internationalize by forming international… More »
Honoring the late Steve Klepper
Steve Klepper, who has been an inspiration to so many of us, recently passed away. At the 20th anniversary of the CCC colloquium, we honored Steve Klepper. The video captures very nicely how much Steve touched an entire generation of doctoral students working on the intersection of industry evolution and technological innovation.
Jeff Bezos on how to build organizations for innovation
Here are Bezos thoughts on n how to build organizations for innovation: A willingness to fail and to be misunderstood “then what you can do is you can ramp up your rate of experimentation”. “So successful inventions [are] inventions that customers care about. It’s actually relatively easy to invent things that customers don’t care about,… More »
10 Management insights courtesy of Carol Tice
Carol Tice summarized the 10 lessons in recent management books. 1. Instead of hiring people with fancy resumes, hire people who fit your culture and are teachable. 2. Build a strong brand and don't change it. 3. Focus all your products on the consumer by studying and listening to customers and innovating accordingly. 4. Appoint… More »
