Commercial Academics : An Indian Story

Authors

• Venkat Chandrasekhar, PicoPeta Simputers
• Vijay Chandru, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

Document Type

Discussions (Round Table)

Abstract

Venture funding today is geared to entrepreneurial initiatives that are innovative, address new markets, are highly scalable and thus growth oriented. On a time dimension, the sooner this is achieved the better. Given this scenario, successful technology entrepreneurs must possess good domain knowledge and deeprooted technical expertise. The recent history of high-tech successes has shown us that in the above conditions, academic research based startups and entrepreneurs from academic environments have been highly successful with astounding contributions towards wealth creation.

Recommended Citation

Chandrasekhar, Venkat and Chandru, Vijay (2002) "Commercial Academics : An Indian Story," IIMB Management Review: Vol. 14: Iss. 1, Article 4.
Available at: https://research.iimb.ac.in/imr/vol14/iss1/4

Publication Date

3-1-2002

First Page

108

Last Page

112