http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/857 Fri, 15 May 2026 12:44:16 GMT 2026-05-15T12:44:16Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/872 The Scope of Academic Institutions in Spawning New-Age Technologies for Building Entrepreneurial Society Prasad, H C Shiva; Sharma, N Yagnesh; Krishna, B Gopal In this technocratic world, entrepreneurial society is derived out of some form of technology or the other. The technology could be a broad based one and could comprise of low-end user- high technology, or conversely high-end user-low technology. The new-age technologies like the computer technology, information and biotechnology have had a spurt of great entrepreneurialship and the modern society can be described, at best, as an integral part of this technology. Simple electronic gadgets have revolutionized the job structure and potential entrepreneurial skills. This has made tremendous impact on developing great skills and tools to mobilize the technologies for the common man. It is foreseen that the new-age entrepreneur will be able to run business even from his home regardless of the volume of business, in general. This is where the role of the academic institutions comes into great focus. It is the duty of the academicians to unearth innovative ideas and to impart quality training in newer technologies so that the young and confident entrepreneur blossoms out of the institute to venture into a sound business environment. There are several areas where the academic institutions can play an important part in developing cutting edge and innovative technologies and imparting training in software development tools and industry-centric commercial soft wares. Thus it can be concluded that the role of technology in building up entrepreneurial skills of the future entrepreneurial society from academic institutions requires careful consideration. This paper focuses on these issues in detail with several case studies to illustrate the role of academic institutions in building young entrepreneurial society using new-age technologies. Wed, 09 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/872 2005-02-09T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/871 Socio-educational Entrepreneurship: Expanding the Traditional Role of Teachers Chand, Vijaya Sherry; Choudhury, Geeta Amin This paper explores the educational-entrepreneurial role of successful primary school teachers working in rural state schools-teachers who have attained their educational goals in spite of severely constraining social and economic contexts. A teacher’s role is formally defined as an implementer of the curriculum. However, in situations of educational deprivation, such teachers add, on their own, an entrepreneurial dimension to their role in order to achieve their educational goals and the broader purpose of socio-educational development. This dimension comprises two elements: mobilization of financial and other material resources, and identifying and using community resources and traditions as opportunities for educational practice. The study follows a multiple case study design with theoretical sampling, and draws data from 34 case studies of outstanding and successful teachers. The analysis involves the use of coding procedures, identification of role-related themes and development of a model to illustrate the expanded role definition adopted by the teachers. The findings have implications for the formal reward and recognition systems followed by the state and for teacher development. The former is necessary to sustain an expanded role definition; the latter to communicate to the wider teacher community ways of developing an entrepreneurial role in disadvantaged contexts. Wed, 09 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/871 2005-02-09T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/870 Introducing Entrepreneurship in Curriculum Parthasarathy, K Entrepreneurship is a creative process in which resources are organized and used in a venture that satisfies both personal needs or wants and the needs or wants of others. The introduction of entrepreneurship in universities, colleges and schools are much needed, timely and relevant in our country than ever before. In this context the course on entrepreneurship aims at instilling and stimulating human urge for excellence by realizing individual potential for generating and putting to use the inputs, relevant to social prosperity and thereby ensure decent means of living for every individual. In India, where over 300 million people are still living below the poverty line, it is simply impossible for any government to provide means of livelihood to everyone. Such situations surely demand for a continuous effort from the society, where the people are encouraged to come up with their entrepreneurial initiatives. Bharathidasan University in this effort has established the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Career Development (IECD) with a view to fill the serious gap in our educational system for promoting entrepreneurship among students, non-students, youth, general public and other needed persons. . This paper deals with the need for promoting entrepreneurship in educational curriculum and designing and implementing strategies of number of entrepreneurship promotion oriented short –term and long-term courses at Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu. Wed, 09 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/870 2005-02-09T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/869 Entrepreneurship Research in Indian Universities Batthini, Ganapathi; Tripathy, Jayanta Kumar This paper presents a critical study of the trends in the growth and development of entrepreneurship research in Indian Universities during the last four and a half years. This study reveals the number and percentage of PhD programmes in entrepreneurship carried out in various Indian universities in comparison to that of Social Sciences. The distribution of research in entrepreneurship, university wise, gender wise and language wise has been examined. Implications on the status of entrepreneurship research in Indian universities are also drawn. Wed, 09 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/869 2005-02-09T00:00:00Z