Concepts of entrepreneurship and technological innovations are related to activities that create economic growth and development. These concepts appear to be closely linked, but lack of clear and specific definition leads ...

Small enterprise sector plays an important role in the economic development of India. Over 33 lakhs small enterprises spread over rural, urban and semi-urban locations in the country have created a decentralised and large- ...

In this paper an attempt is made to understand the role of institutional and non-Institutional finance in the making of small entrepreneurs. In particular the paper looks into the and means through which the small entrepreneurs ...

Research on entrepreneurship has had its focus shifting between the person, the project and the environment, depending on the paradigm's chosen by researchers. The two main paradigms guiding entrepreneurship research are: ...

Industrial clusters in and around Delhi have industrial units of various sizes from highly labour intensive tiny units to technologically sophisticated large and medium size units. Most of the tiny and small units are ...

CARE-India's CREDIT (Credit Rotation for Empowerment and Development through Institution Building and Training) Project is designed to address the fundamental problem of 10Yl' income of poor, rural women and their limited ...

Hirschman's categories of "infrastructure first" and "infrastructure following (industries)", and the historical experiences of the recently industrialising countries would be useful starting points in understanding the ...

Recent years have seen a significant rise in the 'globalisation' of developing economies. The agreements in the Uruguay Round and the emergence of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has not only liberalised world trade, ...

Like the individual entrepreneur the term entrepreneur is also dynamic. The term entrepreneur has been defined in many forms and ways in the 17th century the term denoted a unique characteristic function of bearing ...

The beginning of this paper was made while asking a basic question: Whether entrepreneurial firms, known for their sterling performance both as new entrants into industries as well as for their frantic growth strategies, ...