Abstract:
The Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), Ahmedabad was set up in 1983 as an autonomous and not-for-profit Institute with support of apex financial institutions – the IDBI Bank Ltd., IFCI Ltd., ICICI Bank Ltd. And State Bank of India (SBI). The Government of Gujarat pledged twenty-three acres of land on which stands the majestic and sprawling EDII Campus. EDII began by conceptualizing Entrepreneurship Development Programmes (EDPs), and subsequently launched a fine tuned and tested training model for New Enterprise Creation, popularly known today as EDII-EDP model. Gradually EDII moved on to adopt the role of a National Resource Institute in the field, broad basing its efforts internationally too, with the setting up of Entrepreneurship Development Centres in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam and Uzbekistan.
