http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/5877 2026-05-15T15:16:59Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/5920 Viability of Bayh-Dole Act of USA in the Context of India: Critical Evidence from Review of Literature Singh, Ajay Kumar; Ashraf, Shah Nawaz; Acharya, Satya Ranjan The Bayh-Dole Act (BDA) (1980) of USA changed patent policy, involvement of universities in patenting, augmented commercial revenues and increased collaborations of universities with industries. Therefore, the Act became boon for universities-industries relation and private players in USA. The Government of India (GoI) desired to adopt BDA type Act known as Protection and Utilization of Public Funded Intellectual Property Bill (PUPFIPB)-2008 in Indian research academia. It would help to increase protection and utilization of IPRs originating from public-funded research and commercialization of invention, generation of revenues for research institutions/universities. However, there are debates about this bill in Indian research academia whether the GoI should adopt this bill or not. The Indian public-funded research institution’s situation and socio-economic structure of common citizens are different as compared to USA. Therefore, the present study assesses the viability of USA’s BDA in Indian context. The study achieved following objectives: To identify the usefulness of BDA in USA, its viability in India; thereupon this provides comparison of factors related to science and technology, IPRs in USA and India; to bring out conclusive policy suggestions to increase the awareness of IPRs. Thus, it provides policy implications to increase the effectiveness of Indian bill in research academia. 2017-02-22T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/5919 On Measurement of Small Enterprise Performance: Theoretical and Practical Implications for Women Entrepreneurs under Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme Tripathy, Julie Evaluating public policy based interventions in developing countries has always been a challenge as most policies often do not provide quantifiable objectives. Even programme announcements within a policy framework more often is associated more with narrative objectives difficult to quantify for performance assessment. Despite such constraints, researchers in UN organizations, multilateral development banks (MDBs), reputed universities and institutions have over the last two-three decades have contributed large body of literature on the theoretical developments and empirical investigations in policy evaluation. In India policy evaluations made are fewer in number in comparison to evaluation of results in relation to project targets. Serious mapping of policy performance is of recent origin. An attempt is made in this paper to assess policy performance of the largest educated employment generation intervention in the form of the Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) in respect of three important areas. Inclusion of women and specially disadvantaged groups, employment and income generation are assessed in results framework. Indicators and weights are objectively developed and assessments made. Future action and research areas are recommended. 2017-02-22T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/5918 Nurturing Women Entrepreneurship in India through Governmental Programmes: An Oriental Overview Chhabra, Sakshi; Raghunathan, R The purpose of this paper is to understand the various Governmental Policies and Programmes and its role in fostering Women Entrepreneurship in India. The paper adopts an exploratory research design capitalizing on authentic and reliable secondary data through exhaustive studies of reputed journals/literatures, data sources from private and government universities, Government official database and international bodies/organizations. The findings presented in this paper will comprehensively list down the Central and State Level Governmental Policies and Programmes for promoting women entrepreneurship in Indian for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. The study attempts to find out the possible gaps where new programmes are to be designed and offered by the Government. The value addition of this research lies in presenting a comprehensive review on understanding Governmental programs and policies adopted by women entrepreneurs in India. The review will be to the extent of considering research articles/journals/publications focusing primarily on regional (Central) and State-wise Governmental in Indian Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME’s) as primary focus of the study. Validation of the Government policies and Programmes in a specific context can be studied further, for example, for promoting / targeting women entrepreneurs for different industrial / Business organizations / Sectors with different educational background etc. 2017-02-22T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/5917 Importance and Effects of Pillars of Telecentre Sustainability with Special Reference to Akshaya Project, Kerala S, Sreejith; Ganesan, S ‘Akshaya’ is an initiative of the Government of Kerala, envisioned at enhancing the spread of e-literacy, among public with added focus in rural areas, through Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode. The project was launched in November 2002. It brought to fore the enormous managerial and entrepreneurial talent that remains untapped. The moderate number of Telecentre owners who have come forward with the choice of an entrepreneurial career by starting an Akshaya Telecentre is a significant development to reckon with in the subject. The study is based on the major pillars of Telecentre sustainability identified as (a) financial (b) social (c) operational (d) policy and (e) organisational. The study analyzed Sustainability of Telecentres by using the methodology for measuring the performance of informal social microenterprise in an emerging nation. It is identified that all the five pillars have positive effect on Telecentre sustainability. The model also shows the importance of each pillar to telecentre sustainability. The highest importance is for financial sustainability followed by operational sustainability In the case of other three pillars the level of importance to telecentre sustainability is nominal. 2017-02-22T00:00:00Z