Setting the Agenda in the Digital Age: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Sustainability: An International Comparison

Entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology play crucial roles in economic growth and development. This chapter explores the interplay between opportunity perception, human capital, high growth, product innovation, and technology absorption in the context of entrepreneurship and innovation. The authors of this chapter apply a conceptual approach to bridge the contemporary thinking around entrepreneurship and innovation within the context of technological sustainability, with a global emphasis. As will be demonstrated, the conceptual perspective seeks to bridge the academic literature by application to two case studies: India and Nepal. On the world stage, entrepreneurship and innovation underpin economic development. With the emergence of the sustainability agenda there has been a real focus on its interconnections with technology and technological advancement/innovation. As this study shows, India and Nepal are at the forefront in cultivating opportunities in technological innovation that will have a long-term positive effect on local, regional, national, and global sustainability policy agendas. This work provides an up-to-date focus on the interlinking relationships between entrepreneurship, innovation, sustainability, and technology. In relation to this, by applying two geographical case studies from the developing world, the authors provide recommendations and policy suggestions in the ever-growing area of social research.