Indian Entrepreneurship In India

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The entrepreneur as a person brings in overall change through innovation for the maximum social goal. Human values remain sacred and inspire him top serve society. He has firm belief in social betterment and he carries out this responsibility with conviction. The entrepreneur is a visionary and an integrated man with outstanding leadership qualities; with a desire to excel, he gives top priority to research and development. An entrepreneur is one of the important segments of economic growth. Basically he is a person responsible for setting up a business or an enterprise. In fact, he is one who has the initiative, skill for innovation and who looks for high achievements. He is a catalytic agent of change and works for the good of people. …show more content…

But India has the highest level of business exits (15%) among GEM nations in 2006. The communications infrastructure is excellent, yet governmental bureaucracy and the presence of ‘big player’ companies make it difficult for start-ups to establish themselves. Surprisingly, India is behind in developing new policies in support of entrepreneurs.
HISTORY OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN INDIA The history of entrepreneurship is important worldwide, even in India. In the pre colonial times the Indian trade and business was at its peak. Indians were experts in smelting of metals such as brass and tin. Kanishka Empire in the 1st century started nurturing Indian entrepreneurs and traders. Following that period, in around 1600 A.D., India established its trade relationship with Roman Empire. Gold was pouring from all sides. Then came the Portuguese and the English. They captured the Indian sea waters and slowly entered the Indian business. They forced the entrepreneurs to become traders and they themselves took the role of entrepreneurs. This was the main reason for the downfall of Indian business in the colonial times which had its impact in the post-colonial times too. The colonial era make the Indian ideas and principles …show more content…

It is a known fact that so many management institutes are coming up to cater to the growing need of industries by supplying traditional managers/corporate managers. The scope of this study is to find out the perception of management students about the entrepreneurship and compare it with those people who have become entrepreneur. The researcher feels that this study will reveal the facts which are important to develop entrepreneurship as a career option among management students. A manager is one who manages all the resources to match with the organizational needs. In the managerial role resources are allocated to solve problems and improve the administrative efficiency. The entrepreneurship is very a old concept according to which anyone who runs business is called an entrepreneur. The more precise meaning of entrepreneur is; one who perceives a need and then brings together manpower, material and capital required to meet that need. Entrepreneur is one who understands the market dynamics and searches for change respond to it and exploit it as an

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