Study of EDP Trainers

Abstract

The last two decades have witness significant growth in Entrepreneurship Training. Of course, Entrepreneurship Development cannot be restricted to Entrepreneurship Development Programmes (EDPs) alone. Training is only one way of expanding the entrepreneurial base of a country. Entrepreneurship Development is a human resource development task of the highest order in which the process deals with human motivation, various skills, competencies, social and economic risks and investment of financial and physical resources of the State. An entrepreneur can be defined as one who initiates and establishes an economic activity or enterprise. Innovativeness, urge to take risk and capacity to foresee things are the basic ingredients of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is the creative and innovative response to environment. The single most important factor in development entrepreneurship is the entrepreneur himself - his personality, abilities, knowledge and skills. "Entrepreneurship Training" aims at transforming a potential entrepreneur into actual entrepreneur. The training programme, therefore, aims at personality development of candidates, motivational training, project identification and development, and managerial inputs for successful implementation. EDP is the tool used for Entrepreneurship Development.