FDP: For Teachers of Engineering Science Colleges and Polytechnics, 1996

Abstract

There is a growing realization that by motivating young technical students to take up entrepreneurial career, their creative talents can be converted into productive resources In order to achieve this, it is essential that entrepreneurial values are inculcated in them along with regular academic inputs. The National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEOB), The Department of Science & Technology (OST), has taken the initiative in introducing entrepreneurship in the academic curricula of science and technology institutions and also in setting up of ED Cells in many of them. The most crucial agents, however, in the process of developing young science and technology entrepreneurs are Teacher-Trainers with adequate skills, knowledge and information in the area of entrepreneurship. The Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EOII) has, therefore, been striving to spread the message of entrepreneurship among the community of teachers, especially in the engineering/science colleges and polytechnics through its Teachers' Training Programmes (TTPs)/Faculty Development Programmes. (FOPs)