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Sameeksha Desai

Business, Management and Accounting · Indiana University

OpenAlex ORCID
Entrepreneurship Studies and InfluencesFirm Innovation and GrowthPrivate Equity and Venture CapitalCorporate Finance and GovernanceEconomic Growth and Development

Publications

99

Citations

3,721

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

18

Publishing since 2007

Research summary
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Sameeksha Desai studies entrepreneurship and how new and small businesses form, grow, and interact with local economies and government policy. Her work examines topics such as productive versus unproductive entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial ecosystems in cities, entrepreneurship among refugees, migrants, and women, and how economic crises affect business creation. Much of her output takes the form of national and state reports tracking early-stage entrepreneurship in the United States.

Entrepreneurship and business creationLocal and regional entrepreneurial ecosystemsSmall business growth and firm dynamicsEntrepreneurship among underrepresented groups (refugees, migrants, women)Entrepreneurship, policy, and economic development

Publication activity was high in the late 2010s and around 2020 but has slowed in recent years, averaging about one to two publications per year over the last five years.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.2/year recently
2017: 14 publications14172018: 1 publication182019: 7 publications192020: 9 publications202021: 8 publications212022: 2 publications222023: 2 publications232024: 2 publications242526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • SSRN Electronic Journal×14
  • SpringerBriefs in entrepreneurship and innovation×8
  • Small Business Economics×5
  • Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks×3
  • Technological Forecasting and Social Change×2

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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