pbA vivid look at how India has developed the idea of entrepreneurial citizens as leaders mobilizing society and how people try to live that promiseb pCan entrepreneurs develop a nation, serve the poor, and pursue creative freedom, all while generating economic value In iChasing Innovationi, Lilly Irani shows the contradictions that arise as designers, engineers, and businesspeople frame development and governance as opportunities to innovate. Irani documents the rise of entrepreneurial citizenship in India over the past seventy years, demonstrating how a global ethos of development through design has come to shape state policy, economic investment, and the middle class in one of the world's fastest-growing nations. pDrawing on her own professional experience as a Silicon Valley designer and nearly a decade of fieldwork following a Delhi design studio, Irani vividly chronicles the practices and mindsets that hold up professional design as the answer to the challenges of a country of mo