"To summarize, this book provides a detailed overview of why and how tech start-ups emerge in developing economies. [...] The policymakers, academics, students, participants of the entrepreneurial ecosystem such as mentors, angel investors, and venture capitalists, executives from multi-national companies will all benefit from the insights available from this book." Krishna H.S. in: Journal of Scientometric Res. 2/2021, 283-285.
"The entire presentation is lucid. It is understandable to a novice in the subject, useful to practitioners and policymakers in industrial sector, and knowledge-building for researchers and teachers in industrial economics. The author has taken up a challenge to meet with these knowledge-needs of diversified stakeholders in a single book. A reader of this book finds that his/her knowledge-needs on start-ups are met. This is the best contribution of this book." Dr. M.R. Narayana in: Aarthika Charche 2021, No.2, 99-101.
M H Bala Subrahmanya is a Senior Professor at the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. He is an economist specializing in industrial economics and has written on a wide range of topics in his research such as: start-ups; micro firms; SMEs; large scale enterprises including TNCs; industrial R&D and technological innovations; entrepreneurship; industrial energy consumption; industrial subcontracting; and productivity and industrial performance. He has published 59 articles in a wide range of international journals and in excess of 100 articles in Indian journals.