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 …

sets. We use the industrial licensing regime in India (operating from the 1950s onwards) and its gradual relaxation during … 1980-94 is a census of firms in India and has been rarely used in literature. We also use the interesting chronology of … reforms in India (industrial de-regulation in the 1980s and trade reforms in 1991) to test whether industries that faced more …