The need for entrepreneurial development: a review of the Indian IT industry

Abstract

This research explores the gap between the technical and entrepreneurship skills of Indian IT professionals arising from the recent growth of the IT industry in India. The aim of this research is to develop an entrepreneur educational framework that is designed to bridge the gap between the technical and entrepreneurship skills of “would-be entrepreneurs” in environments that lack an appropriate entrepreneur support structure. Such environments can be found in developing countries where the funding priority is on providing humanitarian relief rather than on supporting entrepreneurial activity. The educational framework is generalisable to those industries where a gap exists between the development and acquisition of technical knowledge and the commercialisation of that technical knowledge.