Abstract:
Dear FPM Aspirant,
The Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) is a pioneering programme in the country with
an emphasis on entrepreneurship. It aims to be an acclaimed doctoral level programme for
entrepreneurship educators, researchers, scholars, practitioners and thought leaders who
assiduously strive to add to the existing knowledge in various facets of entrepreneurship.
Through a carefully designed curriculum and the right blend of theory and practice, FPM
meticulously serves the needs of entrepreneurship scholars. The programme stimulates
conceptual, applied and methodological approaches relevant to the study of entrepreneurship
research. It aims to serve the much desired needs of higher learning institutions, research
centres, developmental organisations and government departments desperately seeking
indigenously groomed scholars, educators and thought leaders in entrepreneurship
discipline. The cadre of professionals thus created through this programme will not only
satisfy the quest for knowledge in this discipline but also ensure a far wider reach of
entrepreneurship to uplift the Indian economy.
The FPM curriculum comprises an extensive range of courses in areas of Entrepreneurship and
Management Foundation, Research Methodology, Academic Writing along with thirteen
optional streams: Entrepreneurship Education and Research; Innovation, Incubation, Clusters
and Technology Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Entrepreneurial Finance and Control; Entrepreneurial Marketing; Organisation Behaviour
and Human Resources; Minority, Tribal and Dalit Entrepreneurship; Enterprise Creation and
Growth; Family Business Management; Law, Policy and Governance; International
Entrepreneurship and Women Entrepreneurship. The generous streams are uniquely
designed to cater to a comprehensive array of emerging issues and concerns on the contours of
Indian entrepreneurship.
EDI invites research scholars to join this immensely enriching programme to promote a high
calibre entrepreneurship research and publications in the country.
(Sunil Shukla)
