Manjunath A N is a PhD candidate in Entrepreneurship area at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India. His dissertation explores how entrepreneurial processes bring about regional transformation. Tracing entrepreneurial processes of envisioning opportunity, recombining resources, and legitimizing novelty during the transition of the Princely Mysore region from an agrarian economy to an industrial region, his work identifies how imagined futures and narrative strategies are creatively employed by entrepreneurial agency to complement efforts of regional development. His research interest includes spatially oriented entrepreneurship research – urban and rural ecosystems, entrepreneurial agency at the intersection of public and private sectors, entrepreneurial policy, and business history. He is involved in a book project tracing the entrepreneurial history of the city of Bangalore over the span of the last 150 years.