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Business
Development Programs and the Needs of Entrepreneurs: Do They Match? A Case Study
-- Sibylle Heilbrunn
Based
on the assumption that policy instruments of Business Development
Programs must fit the needs of the entrepreneurs and the
developmental potential of the business, this paper aims
to explore the needs of the entrepreneurs and their businesses
to delineate the factors that influence their needs and
to evaluate the impact of the assistance provided by the
policy instruments. Qualitative and quantitative data were
gathered in 2004. 56 entrepreneurs took part in the study,
representing 86% of the total population of entrepreneurs
in a specific industrial area. Results of the study reveal
that entrepreneurs need more assistance when dealing with
external than with internal business issues. Relatively
young and small businesses, managed by ambitious entrepreneurs
need more assistance from government agencies. The level
of future intentions of the entrepreneurs influences the
amount of assistance required from the Business Development
Program. Although not many entrepreneurs are aware of the
existence of the Center for the Promotion of Entrepreneurship
(CPE) in their immediate environment, those who use its
services outscore the others in terms of growth intention
and performance evaluation of their business. Thus, the
study confirms the importance of Business Development Programs
and the importance of fitting the policy instruments according
to the needs of the potential users.
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Universities
and Entrepreneurship in the US
-- Manish Ashiya and Pooja Dave
The
article attempts to study how universities in the US fuel
entrepreneurship by involving in activities like patenting,
venture funding, developing incubators, and commercializing
the ideas. Universities are a pool of talent and new ideas.
Research activities of the universities in the US got a
thrust with the passage of the Bayh Dole Act. Apart from
patenting and licensing activities, universities also have
a substantial involvement in the emergence of clusters in
the regions like Silicon Valley, Boston, Austin, etc. But
the concern is that the commercialization of the inventions
by the universities contradicts their primary objective
of dissemination of knowledge and engaging in fundamental
research.
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2007 IUP . All Rights Reserved.
Agriclinics
and its Impact on Agripreneurship Development
--
P
Chandrashekara and P Kanaka Durga
The
implementation of Agriclinics and Agribusiness Centers Scheme
resulted in the establishment of Agriclinics and Agribusiness
Centers. All those who were trained under the scheme have
started their agriventures. The agriventures not only provided
advisory services on production, processing and marketing,
but also supplied the inputs required by the farmers in
time and in the villages itself. Some of the agripreneurs
also provide paid extension services in Maharashtra. The
impact of the agripreneurs is so visible that the farmers
are coming forward to pay consultancy fee for the service
of the agripreneur. The analysis clearly shows that the
agripreneurs provide specialized extension services (especially
green house technology in Maharashtra) to the farmers, which
also supplement the efforts of public extension besides
providing better income earning oppurtunities and gainful
self-employment and other employment opportunities to the
unemployed people.
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2007 IUP . All Rights Reserved.
Measuring
the Benefits of Entrepreneurship Development Policy
-- Thomas G Johnson
Entrepreneurship,
as an economic development strategy has been growing in
popularity at all levels of government. The job-creation
potential of entrepreneurs and their small businesses are
often cited as the rationale for adopting a pro-entrepreneurship
strategy. But is job-creation the most appropriate measure
of the contribution of entrepreneurship (or any other economic
development strategy) in the local economy? In this paper,
the author develops a conceptual basis of economic development
which will allow the analysts in the future to obtain a
better measure of the welfare consequences of economic development
policies and programs in general, and entrepreneurship-based
programs in particular. In the paper, the author takes the
welfare theoretic approach as the basis for obtaining an
ideal measure of benefits of economic growth and development
and the Schumpeterian theory as the basis for relating entrepreneurship
to economic growth and development. This allows the author
to suggest a theoretically preferred measure of economic
contribution by entrepreneurship.
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2007 IUP . All Rights Reserved.
Problems
and Prospects of Women Entrepreneurs in North Karnataka
District: A Case Study
-- A
S Shiralashetti and S S Hugar
Recently,
the role of women in the Indian society has changed considerably.
Women today are no longer confined to the kitchen and the
four walls of the house. But they have been actively participating
in every economic activity and successfully proving that
they can excel in any activity. There are many successful
women entrepreneurs, educationists, professionals, scientists,
economists, etc. Women in our country constitute 48.15%
of the total population, as per census 2001. Therefore,
development of the Indian economy is not possible without
the participation of women who constitute a large segment
of the society. Like both hands are necessary to do any
work properly, it is essential that men and women are given
equal oppurtunities to work, so that they can increase their
family income in particular and the country's income in
general.
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2007 IUP . All Rights Reserved.
Case
Study
Social
Entrepreneurship: The Alicia Polak Way
--
P Indu and Vivek Gupta
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2007 ICMR. All Rights
Reserved.
Research
Summary
A
Person-Organization Fit Model of Owner-Managers' Cognitive
Style and Organizational Demands
-- Summarized by Rishi Bhatia
This
empirical study investigates the influence of the characteristics
of the firm and that of the individual entrepreneur on his
satisfaction and intention to exit from the organization.
Since satisfaction and intention to exit are considered
as important determinants of the actual exit of the entrepreneur,
the relationship between these constructs is also investigated.
This study adopts the Person-Organization fit (P-O fit)
perspective in entrepreneur's context. The P-O fit model
suggests that fit occurs when there is congruence between
attributes of the person and those of the organization.
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