What do Entrepreneurs with Disability Want? Understanding their Needs for Training Programmes

Abstract

In the last few decades, people with disabilities have shown keen interest in being an entrepreneur. Their journey from being socially to economically inclusive has been challenging. A new set of challenges follows them as they direct their path towards entrepreneurship. Whether creating a new enterprise or sustaining the existing one, entrepreneurship training has helped and supported entrepreneurs in their journey. Observing the trend of entrepreneurship among people with disabilities, many training programmes are being organised. The problem lies with the fact that we have not tried to understand their needs as an entrepreneur. People with disabilities have their own bunch of problems, and without understanding their side of the issues, we can never provide them want they want. This research tries to understand what problems people with disabilities face in the process of enterprise creation or in sustaining their enterprise and parallelly analyse whether the existing training programmes for entrepreneurs with disability are able to provide the required training to them.