New businesses are crucial for the sustained economic development of the world's emerging regions. Entrepreneurs — the enterprising individuals who conceive of and launch new businesses — and a culture that encourages their risk taking and creativity are therefore essential to their growth and prosperity. The Batten Institute's Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets Initiative supports research projects focused on entrepreneurs and the ingredients of entrepreneurship in emerging regions around the world: seed-stage capital, mentors, sound social institutions and a culture that welcomes new ideas and educates and supports those who pursue them. Affiliate: The Tayloe Murphy Center.  

Key Contributors

Faculty Leaders

Sankaran Venkataraman  
MasterCard Professor of Business Administration

Contributors

Robert F. Bruner  
Dean, Charles C. Abbott Professor of Business Administration and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration
Entrepreneurship in Emerging Global Markets

Greg Fairchild  
Associate Professor of Business Administration
Entrepreneurship in Emerging Domestic Regions

Elizabeth O'Halloran
Managing Director Batten Institute
Entrepreneurship in Emerging Global Markets

Peter Rodriguez
Associate Professor of Business Administration; Associate Dean for International Affairs; Director, Darden Center for Global Initiatives
Entrepreneurship in Emerging Global Markets

Saras Sarasvathy
Isidore Horween Research Associate Professor of Business Administration
Entrepreneurship in Emerging Global Markets

Frank Warnock
Paul M. Hammaker Associate Professor of Business Administration
Entrepreneurship in Emerging Global Markets

Growth Leaders

Professor of Business Administration
Entrepreneurship in Emerging Global Markets

Projects

Entrepreneurship in Emerging Domestic Regions
Entrepreneurship in Emerging Global Markets