Born Global in Bangalore: Emergent Pathways for International New Ventures via Multinational Enterprise Networks

Abstract

I briefly describe three new ventures in Bangalore, India that were founded at different stages of the local entrepreneurial ecosystem’s maturation process, and all internationalized from inception. As the Bangalore entrepreneurial ecosystem matured, the ventures engaged in progressively closer partnerships with the local subsidiaries of foreign multinationals that facilitated their (the new ventures’) internationalization. Thus I point to an upward trajectory in, and interface between, innovation activities of both foreign MNEs and indigenous new ventures. An important implication for international entrepreneurship research is the opportunity (and necessity) to explicitly incorporate the role of partnerships with large MNEs in future research.