http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/345 Fri, 15 May 2026 14:56:25 GMT 2026-05-15T14:56:25Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/416 Technopreneurship should be a Career Option: A Case Study in a Technical College in Kolkata-West Bengal, India Bedajna, Sumankumar; Chaudhuri, Rimu There was a widespread view during the 1990s that the technological entrepreneurship in Asia, particularly in India and more specifically in West Bengal had lagged behind Europe and United States as opposed to the more traditional areas in which the Asian family businesses have excelled such as property development, retailing and trade. During the 2000s there was a revolutionary change in the education system in Bengal, as a number of private engineering colleges came into the picture, creating a number of engineers every year. There was a widespread assumption that the revolution in information technology required the invention of a completely new business paradigm. In India, particularly in Bengal, there was a special sense of urgency about the need to redirect entrepreneurial instinct and effort into technological ventures instead of the more traditional areas of entrepreneurship such as retail, trading and property investment activity. The role of a Technopreneurship is seen as someone who brings together research talent, venture capital, new business concepts and management skills to create commercially successful technological innovations. In this paper we study whether the emerging engineers/engineering students of age group of 19 to 22 years coming out from these private engineering colleges every year are considering Technopreneurship as career options or not. From the statistical analysis of the collected data we have found that the new generations of engineering students are not serious about considering Technopreneurship as career option. Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/416 2011-02-16T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/415 A Conceptual Review on Development Strategies to Promote Techno-preneurship in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Mukherjee, Aroop; Ganesan, R The development of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) has vast advantage in providing creative input leading to rapid expansion of financial and communal forecast of any developing or developed country at large. A motivated SME sector may set up a strong foundation to increase the standard of living and reduce poverty. However, there must be an exact and continuous need to improve the factors that provide a congenial entrepreneurial ambiance to overcome key barriers. The fostering of SMEs is not simply preserving and maintaining the technology, business and knowledge as exhortation, but one has to see to the rapid development in the streams of science and technology. These are the disciplines that are leading towards knowledge base for entrepreneurial talents and technology driven enterprises. Knowledge-based industries are likely to gain utmost importance and make possible facilitation towards promulgation of SMEs. The major aim is to contribute to establish a techno-entrepreneurial-knowledge based society, and to assist them in guiding the entrepreneurial excellence through innovative research which may commensurate with the needs and alleviate bottlenecks of the society and thereby reducing the gap between the technology & enterprises more precisely SMEs. The current concentration is more so on human resource development. This has to be extended towards grooming the techno-preneurship amongst enterprising minds through appropriate Technology Business Incubators (TBIs) in the era of globalization for achieving planned and sustained economic development with a focus on technology, research and innovation Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/415 2011-02-16T00:00:00Z