Current Status of SMEs and Entrepreneurship Education and Training Intervention in Select South and South-East Asian Countries

Abstract

This paper explores the current status of entrepreneurship development process in selected south and south-east Asian countries. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are of great importance to the region due to socioeconomic and political reasons. The paper focuses on the various government interventions and also the role played by the national and international agencies. Entrepreneurship education and training are the major focus areas of the paper. The paper attempts to present a framework based on the experience of Indian entrepreneurship development movement and a model which can be replicated considering certain socioeconomic and political similarities of India at the various stages of the economic development with other countries of the Indian subcontinent as well as other south and south-east Asian countries.