%0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2014 %T Editorial: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in India (August 2014) %A Chris McPhee %A Kalyan Kumar Guin %K education %K entrepreneurship %K government support %K India %K innovation %K knowledge systems %K policy %K service innovation %K stakeholders %K startups %K uncertainty %K university %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 4 %P 3-4 %8 08/2014 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/816 %N 8 %1 Technology Innovation Management Review Chris McPhee is Editor-in-Chief of the Technology Innovation Management Review. Chris holds an MASc degree in Technology Innovation Management from Carleton University in Ottawa and BScH and MSc degrees in Biology from Queen's University in Kingston. He has over 15 years of management, design, and content-development experience in Canada and Scotland, primarily in the science, health, and education sectors. As an advisor and editor, he helps entrepreneurs, executives, and researchers develop and express their ideas. %2 Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Kalyan Kumar Guin is Dean and Professor at the Vinod Gupta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India, and he is a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. His teaching interests cover marketing and operations management, and he has a special interest in quantitative modelling of strategic issues in management. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/816 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2014 %T Perceived Environmental Uncertainty for Startups: A Note on Entrepreneurship Research from an Indian Perspective %A Susmita Ghosh %A Bhaskar Bhowmick %A Kalyan Kumar Guin %K business environment %K emerging economies %K India %K startups %K uncertainty %X In an entrepreneurship environment, understanding uncertainty is critical to startups because it is directly related to the context of decision making. In an emerging country such as India, uncertainties are more predominant due to the very nature of the emerging country, which is characterized by an underdeveloped institutional setup, a lack of protection for legal and intellectual property rights, underdeveloped factor markets, and high transaction costs. In this article, a systematic review of the existing literature on environment and uncertainty in an entrepreneurial, emerging-economy context identifies a gap of a new scale for perceived environmental uncertainty. Three primary contributions are made by this research. First, a literature review for existing uncertainty scales and their evaluation in the context of emerging countries is provided. Second, the research identifies a gap in the uncertainty measurement literature that is relevant to emerging economies. Finally, this study proposes a future research scope that can bridge the identified gap by exploring the factors of uncertainty in emerging countries. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 4 %P 27-35 %8 08/2014 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/820 %N 8 %1 Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Susmita Ghosh is a Research Scholar at Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Currently she is pursuing her doctoral degree in Entrepreneurship, with a research focus on uncertainties in decision making for startups. Her other current research interests include entrepreneurial business incubation and uncertainty in product development. %2 Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Bhaskar Bhowmick is an as Assistant Professor at Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He completed his PhD from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmadabad with a specialization in Business Policy. He has thirteen years of industry experience in sales and marketing. His research interests include strategy-sustenance-succession, leadership strategy, and uncertainty in product development, innovation, and entrepreneurship. %3 Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Kalyan Kumar Guin is Dean and Professor at the Vinod Gupta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India, and he is a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. His teaching interests cover marketing and operations management, and he has a special interest in quantitative modelling of strategic issues in management. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/820