http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/668 Fri, 15 May 2026 14:56:27 GMT 2026-05-15T14:56:27Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/956 Performance Evaluation of Entrepreneurship Development Programme in India Awasthi, Dinesh N; Sebastian, Jose Considering the initial constraints a small entrepreneur would face while initiating and launching his/her venture, the Government of India envisaged a promotional package in mid-fifties to facilitate setting up of new ventures. The package consisted of financial assistance and incentives. Infrastructural facilities and technical and managerial guidance through a network of a number of support organisations, etc. at the central as well as state and local levels. It was, however, realized by the planners and policy makers that facilities and incentives were necessary but were not sufficient in themselves to ensure adequate entrepreneurial response. In fact, entrepreneurial growth required focus on human resources also. With this background, the Government and financial organisations started thinking in terms of fostering entrepreneurship through training intervention. Towards this a pioneering initiative was taken in Gujarat, in the late sixties. A 3 month training programme known as Entrepreneurship Development Programme (EDP) was evolved. The programme was meant for new and selected entrepreneurs who had latent entrepreneurial potential. It laid emphasis on (1) setting up a small venture; (ii) managing it; and (iii) making profit out of it. The initial programmes were oriented towards business knowledge and skills. Later, behavioural inputs (especially, Achievement Motivation Training-AMT) were also made a regular feature of the training package. Tue, 29 Mar 1994 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/956 1994-03-29T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/955 Programme for Entrepreneurship Development: Some Reflections Shukla, Sunil The word "Entrepreneurship" has attracted much public attention these days both in India and abroad. And, the person in focus, the entrepreneur, is regarded as the most crucial factor in economic development. Like the other developing countries, in our country too, there are ample opportunities for innovations to exploit the available resources and initiate entrepreneurial ventures. Realising the need and importance for developing small scale entrepreneurs, various state governmental consultancy organisations (TCOs), non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and several engineering colleges have started offering entrepreneurship courses to encourage and develop entrepreneurs. The purpose of these courses on entrepreneurship is to prepare the learners for taking entrepreneurial ventures. Entrepreneurship education in India, or for that matter anywhere else, is of recent origin. In fact, few until very recently believed that entrepreneurs could be created through educational endeavours, or entrepreneurship could be a matter of training. For well-over a century or longer, entrepreneurship was confined to the economic literature as a mere concept to explain the process of production, without much practical value to those concerned with the mundane task of enterprise development. Educational intervention in entrepreneurship was given less importance due to its emphasis on market mechanism which was being considered the principal driving force behind economic changes. Tue, 29 Mar 1994 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/955 1994-03-29T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/954 Responsiveness of Small and Tiny Enterprises to Policy Reforms in India Krishna, K V S M; Awasthi, Dinesh N; Sebastian, Jose Government of India for the first time, announced a separate policy for small and tiny industry sector (NSIP) on large scale sector has generated lot of interest among academicians, entrepreneurs, planners, and policy makers. However, the implications of this policy thrust for small-scale sector have not been adequately debated despite its vital role in the economic growth of the country. One school of thought perceives a positive impact of NEP in general and NSIP in particular on small-scale sector while another school of thought perceives a negative impact. In either case very little has been discussed beyond an intellectual guess work. Policy reforms across the world economies have succeeded only when the directly affected agents have perceived them as contributory to the development. Academic work in India, so far, has not taken this reality into consideration while analysing the impact of NEP. Realising this limitation the present research made an attempt to understand the perceptions of the entrepreneurs on various policy measures launched since 1991. Tue, 29 Mar 1994 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/954 1994-03-29T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/696 Attitudinal Orientation and Leadership Styles: An Empirical Verification among First and Second Generation Entrepreneurs Velan, N Shanmuga; Venkatapathy, R Like the individual entrepreneur, the term entrepreneur is also dynamic. The term entrepreneur has been described and designed in many form and ways. In the 17th century the term denoted an unique characteristic function of bearing non-insurable risk. Schumpeter has been credited for bringing in the human element as well as a unique function of entrepreneur into being. He advocated that the entrepreneur is another factor of production in addition to other structural factors. He also posited that sheer innovation differentiates an entrepreneur from others. Schumpeter has described an entrepreneur as a man of action who possesses the ability to inspire others and one does not accept the boundaries of structured situation. The later took due from Schumpeter and investigated several aspects relating to individual entrepreneurs. Tue, 29 Mar 1994 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/696 1994-03-29T00:00:00Z