"Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long. In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world."
-- Vince Poscente

Friday, March 19, 2010

'Jugaad' Economy - Entrepreneurship in India

Ryan Streeter, Legatum Institute Senior Fellow
17 March 2010, Legatum Perspectives


Entrepreneurship in Asia may be the least understood of today’s most exciting economic phenomena. Even in developed western economies, researchers and analysts are only now beginning to understand the economic contribution of the enterprising class of innovators, business owners, and risk-takers we call “entrepreneurs.” Entrepreneurship in Asia is even less well understood, despite its popularity.

India is increasingly important as a laboratory of bottom-up, gritty, individualistic entrepreneurship, different than, say, the Chinese model. Harvard University’s Tarun Khanna, an expert on Chinese and Indian entrepreneurship, has in his work contrasted China’s government-driven, top-down style of enterprise with India’s “interesting, vibrant way of doing things...in the private sector...far away from government intervention.” Understanding how enterprising individuals in India think and act is important to understanding the larger Indian economy and its future.


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