Abstract:
These days, most educational institutions, business schools, training agencies, ED cells, industry
consortiums, associations of entrepreneurs, business incubators, government development agencies and
funding agencies conduct entrepreneurship development programmes (EDPs). Many such programmes are
available for graduates from commerce and business administration disciplines. However, under the effort of
NSTEDB’s NIMAT projects, funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of
India, today’s Science and Technology (S&T) graduates too have exposure to standard one-month
Entrepreneurship Development Programmes (EDPs). The programmes have been carefully designed to
provide full exposure of entrepreneurship to budding CEOs. This paper takes a genuine look at the
effectiveness of some of these EDPs in helping the participants launch and nurture their entrepreneurial
ventures within six to nine months of attending the EDPs. What percentages of the participants are
successful? What makes them successful? Thus, are EDPs actually effective among S&T graduates?
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Thirteenth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship/ Edited by Sasi Misra, Sunil Shukla, Ganapathi Batthini
