Entrepreneurship

Starting and running a business: ideas, theories, funding, challenges and the Indian startup ecosystem.

Town of courier, banking, insurance and event businesses, illustrating ways to create jobs
Entrepreneurship

Quick answer: Many new jobs come from services that support trade. Entrepreneurs can create employment by starting businesses in transport,

Entrepreneur planting a seedling that grows into a town with factories, shops and jobs
Entrepreneurship

Quick answer: Entrepreneurs drive economic development by starting new businesses and expanding existing ones. In doing so they mobilise savings

Workshop employing families in a calm prosperous village, illustrating entrepreneurs and social stability
Entrepreneurship

Quick answer: Entrepreneurs help keep society stable by creating jobs and reducing poverty, raising living standards, easing economic problems, promoting

Inventor entrepreneur unveiling a new machine, illustrating the entrepreneur as innovator
Entrepreneurship

Quick answer: An innovator entrepreneur keeps introducing something new: a new product, production method, market, source of supply or way

Trainer leading a workshop for aspiring entrepreneurs, illustrating objectives of entrepreneurial development programmes
Entrepreneurship

Quick answer: The objectives of Entrepreneurship Development Programmes are to create first-generation entrepreneurs, build the entrepreneurial mindset, help identify opportunities,

Mentor guiding trainees toward a small business, illustrating entrepreneurial development programmes
Entrepreneurship

Quick answer: An Entrepreneurial Development Programme (EDP) creates the desire to become an entrepreneur, trains and motivates people to start

Citizens and an official reminding a business owner of responsibilities, illustrating responsible entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship

Quick answer: To make entrepreneurs take their social responsibilities seriously, society and government can raise awareness, make representations, provide education

Entrepreneur paying taxes at a government office, illustrating social responsibility towards government and institutions
Entrepreneurship

Quick answer: Entrepreneurs have duties beyond profit. Towards government, they should follow laws and rules, pay taxes honestly, never corrupt

Factory owner planting trees with villagers beside a clean river, illustrating responsibility towards the local community
Entrepreneurship

Quick answer: Toward the local community, an entrepreneur should compete fairly, prevent pollution, support public-utility activities, hire locally, help raise

Business owner dealing fairly with suppliers, bankers and depositors, illustrating entrepreneur responsibilities
Entrepreneurship

Quick answer: Entrepreneurs must pay suppliers on time (within 45 days for MSME suppliers), use fair contracts, avoid abusing bargaining