Overview

India is entering a decade where ingenuity under constraint will decide who leads and who falls behind. LeanSpark shows how India’s 'high-tech jugaad' is turning scarcity into an innovation superpower―across drones and EVs, fintech and AI, sports, space and public policy. It distils a decade of research and fieldwork into a practical playbook for doing more with less, and for doing it at scale.

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Lean Spark is one of those nice books that doesn’t just talk about innovation, rather reshapes how one thinks about it. In a world where entrepreneurship is often equated with massive funding, fast scaling and relentless expansion, this book offers a thoughtful counter narrative...it being that true innovation emerges not from abundance, but from mindful restraint!!

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Jaideep Prabhu is professor of marketing and Nehru Professor of Indian Business at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, where he is also director of the Centre for India and Global Business and vice dean for faculty. A specialist in innovation, strategy and international business, his research on high-tech and frugal innovation spans both emerging and developed economies. He is the co-author of Jugaad Innovation, an international bestseller; Frugal Innovation, winner of the CMI (Chartered Management Institute) Management Book of the Year award; and How Should a Government Be? He is a fellow of the British Academy and has played cricket at Lords. Priyank Narayan is a faculty member at the department of entrepreneurship and management at Ashoka University, where he also serves as the founding director of the InfoEdge Centre for Entrepreneurship. Before joining Ashoka, he spent many years as an entrepreneur and worked as a management consultant. He is a recipient of IBM’s Global Faculty Award and teaches as guest faculty at IIT Delhi, IIM Ahmedabad and HEC Paris. Priyank is the co-author of Leapfrog: Six Practices to Thrive, a national bestseller, and holds a PhD from IIT Delhi. He is also a visiting fellow at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK. Mukesh Sud, a former faculty at IIM Ahmedabad (IIMA), was previously an entrepreneur. A visiting fellow at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, he continues to teach both at IIMA and Ashoka University. His co-authored book, Leapfrog: Six Practices to Thrive, is a national bestseller and has been translated into many languages. His next book, Simple Thinking: Solving Problems with Simplicity, is due for release in early 2026. Mukesh is currently working on a collection of short stories.

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