National Seminar on Approaches to Enrepreneurship Education & Deliberations on Establishment of Entrepreneurship and Business Development Centres (EBDCs) in Higher Education Institutions :

In the year 2001, with the support from the National Entrepreneurship Development Board (NEDB), Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Agro and Rural Industries (SSI & ARI), Government of India, New Delhi, Entrepreneurship Development Institute (EDI) of India carried out a four-state study on “Entry Barriers to Entrepreneurship: As Perceived by the Youth” to identify facilitating and hindering factors for educated youth and employees in taking up entrepreneurship as a career option. As a fall-out of that study, the Ministry of SSI and ARI has launched a scheme of establishing Entrepreneurship and Business Development Centres (EBDCs) in select universities, colleges, regional engineering colleges, institutions and organizations under the Plan Scheme of NEDB.

To present the findings of the Study before the academicians, educationists and policy makers and also to deliberate further and work out the modalities of the NEDB-scheme, EDI organized a National Seminar on ‘Approaches to Entrepreneurship Education’ on 10th June 2005, at India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi.

Objectives:

The broader objective of the Seminar was to discuss the needs, problems and approaches in introducing entrepreneurship education at higher education level based on the EDI-study on Entry Barriers.

During the Seminar, the following themes were discussed at length.

• Entry Barriers to Entrepreneurship
• Role of academic institutions in promoting Entrepreneurship
• Status of Entrepreneurship education at state and national levels
• Inculcating entrepreneurial motivation and competencies in youth
• Evaluation of Entrepreneurship education and
• Action plan

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