GEDI dialogue on Entrepreneurship
Economic Entrepreneurship
Social entrepreneurship
Political entrepreneurship
Deepti, Uzma, renu, heena, sheel and girish
anil
anilg@iimahd.ernet.in
• Enabling conditions:
– flexible working environment,
– mentoring networks,
– Services like women accountant service providers
– Mobile training vans, capacity building facilities
• Motivational and empowerment
– Books of women entrepreneurs
– Flexible timings of technical training centres
– Media programs on experiences of women entrepreneurs and other enterprises breaking new ground
– Peer learning and mentoring
– Children being groomed to aspire for entrepreneurial choices
– Help lines based on mobiles to reinforce the training and capacity building programs at different pace, flexible and at site
Institutions
• Institutional initiatives to strengthen entrepreneurship-letting employees move towards entrepreneurship by gradual weaning away –intraprenurship
• Preference in public procurement where possible
• Dedicated markets for women entrep ( e.g. manipur )
• Special angel funds and venture funds
• Niche market development based on knowledge unique or specially endowed with women,
• Peer culture and groups to support each other
Knowledge as a tool for transformation
• Knowledge based enterprises
• Transition of SHGs from micro finance to micro venture finance, promotion of horizontal markets—encourage peer trade and investments
• Indian language Softwares specially suited for use by self employed women entrepreneurs( gui suited for the, their navigation styles and preferences)
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• Branding for group marketing and channels for pooling inward and outward flows of goods and services
• Food processing as a niche markets
Social entrepreneurship
• Niches which markets will never fill and thus need for new
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• entrepreneurial solutions to emerge
• Missing Social venture funds
• Networks of social entrepreneurship to mentor social start ups
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imaginations at work:Should this picture be used to invite tourists to India :
Incredible India
Incredible India
Political entrepreneurship
• Leadership, and saga of struggles and getting over the humps
• Support system for budding leaders to assert themselves on various policy and institutional mediations –involving students volunteers
Summing up
• Enabling conditions
• Institutions
• Incentives
• Opportunities for technological and entrepreneurial innovations in social, economic and political entrepreneurship
Anil K Gupta
