Faculty Development Programme in Entrepreneurship - How to Teach Students to Set up Small Business Veptures

Abstract

It is widely recognized that today's environment is highly dynamic- exhibiting high rate of change in response to global competition and the application of new technologies. Continuing towards a post-industrial knowledge based society, entrepreneurship, which accounts for 70 percent of all new jobs, is a crucial phenomenon for the 21st century. By virtue of its significance, entrepreneurial activity present in a region, or even a country, it has now become the focus in many academic settings. These changes have also focused the attention of academic institute administrators and educators towards the potential of entrepreneurship.