Catching the Tiger by the Tail : Fostering Entrepreneurship among Craft Groups in Orissa

Abstract

Time is long past when ’entrepreneurship’ was confined to the portals of the academia, when the major concern was to understand and explain conceptual parameters. During the last few decades, attention has shifted to efforts to ’create’ entrepreneurs, and the principal actors in this sphere have been governmental and non-governmental agencies, training institutions and social activists, rather than scholars and thinkers. Their experiments have not only brought new entrepreneurs to the fore, but have also provided new inputs for theoretical formulations. This paper describes one such experiment conducted in one of the states in India.