Abstract:
Science and Technology Entrepreneurship is a major driver for innovation,
economic prosperity as well as job creation. In India, business establishment
was traditionally considered to be the domain of few business families or the
result of natural inheritance within business communities. However, with the
help of proactive government policies and financial support for
entrepreneurship, slowly and steadily, entrepreneurship in domain of science
and technology is gaining momentum and interest in the country. The National
Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Board (NSTEDB), which is the
premier govt. institution in the country to promote S&T entrepreneurship, was
established in 1982 by the Department of Science & Technology, Government of
India with the broad objective of promoting Science & Technology
Entrepreneurship, gainful self-employment amongst the Science and Technology
(S&T) youth in the Country and to promote knowledge based and innovation
driven enterprises. In the year 2008-2009, Entrepreneurship Development
Institute of India, a national Resource Institute in the field of entrepreneurship
education, research, training and institution building, was entrusted the
humungous task of implementing several capacity building programmes
(Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp, Entrepreneurship Development
Programme, Women Entrepreneurship Development Programme, Technology
based Entrepreneurship Development Programme, Faculty Development
Programme) by DST-NSTEDB, thereby acting as a National Implementing &
Monitoring Agency of DST, and the programmes known under DST NIMAT
project. Here in this paper, an attempt has been made to present a detailed
insight of this project, its genesis, implementation mechanism and impact made
during 10 years of its operation i.e. 2008-2018. Given the encouraging results of
this project over the years, there is a huge scope for the flourishment of
entrepreneurship in various domains of science and technology in the country.
Description:
Fourteenth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship/ Edited by Rajeev Sharma, Sunil Shukla, Amit Kumar Dwivedi & Ganapathi Batthini
